Sentence examples for withering cannon from inspiring English sources
If the Connecticut men would have stayed to defend York Island under the withering cannon fire and in the face of overwhelming force, they would have been annihilated.
Each advance, however, was met with a withering barrage of cannon fire that threw the rebels back.
During this engagement, some of No. 22 Squadron's Bostons struck Lae airfield to prevent Japanese fighters taking off to intercept Allied bombers, while others took part in the actual assault on the convoy; No. 30 Squadron's Beaufighters launched "withering" low-level cannon and machine-gun attacks on the Japanese ships to suppress anti-aircraft fire prior to bombing runs by USAAF B-25 Mitchells.
The hostilities are withering.
The AC-130, which lays down a withering fire from heavy machine guns and cannons, is assigned to the Air Force Special Operations Command.
The term basilisk, the name of a mythical dragonlike beast of withering gaze and flaming breath, was applied to early "long" cannon capable of firing cast-iron projectiles, but, early cannon terminology being anything but consistent, any particularly large and powerful cannon might be called a basilisk.
Boris Johnson – It is not inconceivable that May could try to bring Johnson into the fold, despite her withering putdown about his purchase of useless secondhand water cannon from Germany when he was London mayor.
