Sentence examples for firing cannons from inspiring English sources

Area militia, now alerted, began lining the riverbanks, firing cannons.

Weekend events include re-enactments, with the H.M.S. Bounty and the Providence sailing past firing cannons.

When I was at Shiloh, Tenn., in 2010, they had these Confederate re-enactors firing cannons.

Meanwhile, the people in charge of firing cannons in the end zone when Rutgers scores a touchdown had all their ammunition left.

But what made AC/DC great – and this may sound odd, describing a band whose onstage props include a giant inflatable woman, firing cannons and the "hell's bell" – has always been restraint.

But the sting of secrecy apparently did not touch scientists until later in the Renaissance when Niccolo Tartaglia, the Italian mathematician who computed the first tables for firing cannons to specified distances, tried to impress a well-connected colleague in hopes of becoming artillery adviser to the Spanish Army.

"Nobody is thinking about firing cannon at a ship full of people," Mr. Berlusconi told a television interviewer on Wednesday, "but something has to be done".

It fired cannons at Op-Sail and leads the Columbus Day Parade.

Soldiers in traditional pointy shepherd hats fired cannons as the king inspected his subjects from atop a horse.

"Tomorrow, we can't be naïve and wait for the police to fire cannons of tear gas.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans did more than hurl verbal brickbats across the political divide; they fired cannons and rifles, killing one another in astonishing numbers.