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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cannonade.

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Examples

  • Having secretly sowed treason in the Benga li ranks, he seized the high ground and cannonaded his disoriented enemy.

    Companies to Colonies Jeffrey Collins 2010

  • He installed his artillery atop the nearest bluff, and furiously cannonaded the opposite shore.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • Mont – Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was burned, La

    Les Miserables 2008

  • I had braved before I returned to my wife; and our frigate being aground for a time and got off with difficulty, was agreeably cannonaded by the enemy until she got off her bank.

    The Virginians 2006

  • The drums of the spirits cannonaded through the treetops; clouds gathered above him and crouched, low and ready.

    Spirited Nancy Holder 2004

  • The drums of the spirits cannonaded through the treetops; clouds gathered above him and crouched, low and ready.

    Spirited Nancy Holder 2004

  • “M. Aronnax,” he replied, “dare you affirm that your frigate would not as soon have pursued and cannonaded a submarine boat as a monster?”

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • The Viennese and Hungarian crowds were cannonaded from their strongholds, and in Germany a constitutional assembly that had been bravely debating the question of republicanism broke down into factional bickering and then ignominiously offered the country to Frederick William IV of Prussia.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • The Viennese and Hungarian crowds were cannonaded from their strongholds, and in Germany a constitutional assembly that had been bravely debating the question of republicanism broke down into factional bickering and then ignominiously offered the country to Frederick William IV of Prussia.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • As a result, the swiftly flowing river cannonaded into the north cliff face that formed the base of the mountain Aracunga, five thou'sand meters below their feet.

    Voyage To The City Of The Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

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