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How to use cannonading in a sentence

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During the fight the cannonading was so violent that the crew of the Naesborg could not stand erect on the deck.
Her fears for her husband, who left two weeks later, were intensified when she heard cannonading from her own home.
We are looking daily for a big fight to come off, even now cannonading is distinctly heard.
Raucous, sometimes almost spiritual singing, pushes from cellars, echoing and cannonading off the narrow whitewashed alleys.
He has resumed with gusto his cannonading of Congress and the establishment, doing what he does best.
In 1956 he read that on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg a Confederate band played in the midst of cannonading.
Then, about noon the next day – even before he had his artillery on top of Maryland Heights – McLaws heard cannonading at Crampton's Gap, five miles away on the other side of the valley.
The authors of those universal declarations and rights catalogues came to their utterances fresh from either cannonading imperial masters or guillotining royal families: there is gunpowder in the air and blood on their hands.
Examples from Classical Literature
Then, remotely, faint as distant cannonading, a rumble reached me.
Under cover of the cannonading, the disembarkation of the troops began.
The cannonading was like thunder, and this morning we again fought.
In the long dusk of the summer evening, the cannonading ceased.
A cannonading was soon commenced, and a general battle ensued.
In seven hours' cannonading the ship fired eight hundred shot.
On one side and the other this cannonading lasted many hours.
At length, I lost that feeble hold upon reality, and was engaged with two dear friends, but who they were I don't know, at the siege of some town in a roar of cannonading.
For three days thereafter we could hear the cannonading and the spitting of the small arms, for the battle line was scarce two leagues from New Gondar.
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