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How to use cannon in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Cannon means a complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages. Example: “In English billiards, a cannon is when one’s cue ball strikes the other player’s cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.”

Examples of cannon by meaning

nounAny similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

  • water cannon; glitter cannon; confetti cannon; potato cannon

nounA carom.

  • In English billiards, a cannon is when one’s cue ball strikes the other player’s cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.

nounThe arm of a player who can throw well.

  • He’s got a cannon out in right.

nounA cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter...

  • The pauldrons are rather weak, but the cannons of the vambraces are good and come from an Italian armour of considerably earlier date, for they have the tulip form of the first half of the century.1949, The Connoisseur
  • The arm defenses were almost always in one piece, the lower and upper cannons joined permanently to the couter with internal leathers and rivets, and the whole frequently also joined permanently to the pauldron.2007, Kelly DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 178

nounA pickpocket.

  • Rufus Dayne is a cannon.2009, James Thomson, Bedlam City: Savage Worlds Edition, page 377

verbTo play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.

  • The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.

verbTo fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

  • Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins.2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC

verbTo collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

  • She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom.1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998

More sentences with cannon

  • The cannons were wheeled around to bear upon the advancing troops.From the entry bear
  • Luckily, the cannoneer was only mildly injured when his cannon malfunctioned.From the entry cannoneer
  • The new jacked up triple-barrel cannons helped turn the tide of the war.From the entry jacked up
  • A breeze had sprung up, pushing the ship back within range of the Spanish cannons.From the entry spring up
  • Talk about a loose cannon! Did you hear his TV speech?From the entry talk about
  • The cannon boomed, recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud.From the entry boom
  • He's got a cannon out in right field.From the entry right field
  • Using a water cannon, the national guard sprayed the protesters.From the entry spray
  • Jack is considered a loose cannon due to his volatile personality and his track record of being unable to maintain his composure.From the entry loose cannon
  • Gilbralter's cannoned steep. — M. Arnold.From the entry cannoned
  • Defying musket and cannon blast, they berserk preemptively against the Tlaxcaltecah.2023, David Bowles, Guadalupe García McCall, Secret of the Moon Conch, Bloomsbury YA, →ISBN. From the entry berserk
  • It was an APC with a small cannon on the top.2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 264. From the entry APC
  • Common Uses: Mostly just 'splodey stuff, but particularly traps and cannons.2015, Trevor Talley, The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Circuit Power!: Minecraft Redstone and the Keys to Supercharging Your Builds in…. From the entry 'splodey
  • Check out the Intermediate Builds section for how to make a real nice TNT cannon.2015, Trevor Talley, The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Circuit Power!: Minecraft Redstone and the Keys to Supercharging Your Builds in…. From the entry 'splodey
  • Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, “Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22…. From the entry patriot
  • From there, he’s on to making things like fuses, rockets and an eprouvette, or small cannon.2009 June 10, Dwight Garner, “For Those Who Like Danger, the Home Book of Things Not to Try at Home”, in New York Times. From the entry eprouvette
  • Deep elves die easier than most other races - glass cannons to an extreme extent.2009 May 23, Eugene Barrett, “Re: DCSS:: need advice”, in rec.games.roguelike.misc (Usenet). From the entry glass cannon
  • The tank-destroyer was a kind of armored car with a 76mm cannon.2008 May 24, David Mehegan, “Sixty years of silence”, in The Boston Globe, volume 273, number 145, page C8, column 1. From the entry tank-destroyer
  • All this because the famous Skule cannon was stolen by the Med students.2008, Yutaka Harold Yoneyama, “University of Toronto”, in An Evacuee’s Memoir: An Account from the Writer's Own Recollection, Toronto…. From the entry skule
  • Gunmetals are alloys of copper, tin and zinc, formerly used for casting cannon.1984, D[onald] A. Wight, “Materials”, in C[hristopher] T. Wilbur and D. A. Wight, Pounder’s Marine Diesel Engines, 6th edition, London…. From the entry gunmetal
  • Pure squanderation of the cannon and unnecessarily flattening to the skeet.1984, Miles Franklin, The End of my Career, Pocket Books - The Pennsylvania State University Press, page 201. From the entry squanderation
  • The only guns they had then were four 42 mm cannons.1982, Nancy Ing, Winter Plum: Contemporary Chinese Fiction, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 90. From the entry Ta-teng
  • A colossal quadrireme constructed by the scholar-turned-shipwright Vettor Fausto was loaded with batteries of cannon.1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 121. From the entry quadrireme
  • “The general says that if you are wise you will leave before the cannons come.1918, Roland Pertwee, The Little Landscape: Everybody′s Magazine, volume 38, page 35. From the entry napoo
  • The soldiers were sitting ducks, sent forth by Russian commanders to act essentially as human cannon fodder in an assault.2023 February 13, Andrew E. Kramer, “‘Our Losses Were Gigantic’: Life in a Sacrificial Russian Assault Wave”, in The New York Times…. From the entry sitting duck
  • The Navy classified warships by their number of cannons, and with twenty-eight, she was a sixth-rate–the lowest rank.2023, David Grann, chapter 1, in The Wager, Doubleday. From the entry sixth-rate
  • I'll tell Pintsize to decock the confetti cannon."2020, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4255: We Know How It Is. From the entry decock
  • That jetpacked Pau’an fool was still blasting toward them, letting off shot after shot from his hand cannons.2018, Daniel José Older, Star Wars: Last Shot: A Han and Lando Novel, Del Rey, →ISBN. From the entry jetpacked
  • The underside of the fuselage rumbled, as undermounted cannon dropped, targetted, and started firing rounds in a high-pitched rat-a-tat-tat.2017, Ben Coes, Trap the Devil, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 432. From the entry undermounted
  • It is a supremely sensitive part of the custard cannon and can be tenderly stimulated with licking and kissing.2016, Michael Alvear, Blow Yourself Away. From the entry custard cannon
  • A min-maxer might create a "glass cannon" character—one with lots of awesome offenses but next to no defense.2012, Lizzie Stark, Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry glass cannon

Meaning of cannon

  1. noun A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.
  2. noun Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
  3. noun An autocannon.

Full definition of cannon

Questions about cannon in a sentence

How do you use cannon in a sentence?
Cannon is used as a noun and verb. For example: “In English billiards, a cannon is when one’s cue ball strikes the other player’s cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.”
What is a short sentence with cannon?
“Rufus Dayne is a cannon.”
What does cannon mean?
Cannon means a complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.

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