cannoning

present participle of cannon

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cannoning
Verb
  • According to police, Crow and the woman he’s accused of battering live together and were involved in fight about past relationships.
    John MacLauchlan, Miami Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Outer Banks brace for Hurricane Erin Hurricane Erin's higher tides and big waves are battering much of the East Coast.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That the Chiefs could hardly bother Herbert without blitzing — and often not even then — was the most alarming development of the night for KC.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • When Moscow started blitzing Ukraine’s cities and communications towers with exploding missiles, the Western satellite colossus Intelsat swiftly mapped out strategies to keep the country from being bombed into an informational black hole.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For a stretch, Browns head trainer Joe Sheehan wasn’t working out with them, so Vrabel started bombarding him with playful texts and selfies with the staff, enough to shame Sheehan into eventually joining them.
    Dianna Russini, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Al Sharif, whose X account showed more than 500,000 followers, posted on the platform minutes before his death that Israel had been intensely bombarding Gaza City for more than two hours.
    USA Today, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The president has constantly mocked Powell on social media, and accused him of mismanaging renovations of the Fed’s headquarters, even ambushing the Fed chief with a new cost estimate for a facility renovation in front of rolling television cameras.
    Tobias Burns, The Hill, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, rogues’ daggers deal heavy damage when ambushing foes with a flurry of stamina-draining attacks.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In this season of Platonic, Luke Macfarlane's character Charlie has a mental breakdown after bombing his dream opportunity to compete on Jeopardy!
    Dory Jackson, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Trump talks God in his speech on bombing Iran.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Cannoning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cannoning. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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