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  • noun Plural form of cannonball.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cannonball.

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Examples

  • We'd been calling the cannonballs 'gray peas,' but the thing that shot low across the deck, tearing rail, cannon ports, and people apart in a shower of wooden splinters, was no pea. . .

    Going to Sea Once More Sam Sacks 2011

  • The rest were weak, although The Next Doctor did have a 400-foot-tall Cyberman shooting up Victorian London with auto-firing cannonballs, which is kind of cool.

    Hugo Nominations grrm 2010

  • The remaining artifacts include Revolutionary War items such as cannonballs, militia uniforms and Continental Congress-era currency.

    Latest News 2009

  • The remaining artifacts include Revolutionary War items such as cannonballs, militia uniforms and Continental Congress-era currency.

    Latest News 2009

  • (enclosed bumper cars where you shoot "cannonballs" at other cars).

    Weddingbee 2008

  • The pictures were meant to show the photographer's contemporaries the intensity of the artillery bombardment during the Crimean War, and they are nearly identical—except that in one the enemy's cannonballs are concentrated in a gully just off to the side of the road (Mr. Morris calls this image "OFF") and in the other the cannonballs are scattered on the road (Mr. Morris calls this image "ON ").

    The Ever-Questioning Eye William Meyers 2011

  • Mr. Morris's curiosity about these early examples of war photography was piqued by Susan Sontag's disapproving, but unsubstantiated, comment in "Regarding the Pain of Others" 2002 that in order to get a more effective picture Fenton "oversaw the scattering of the cannonballs on the road itself."

    The Ever-Questioning Eye William Meyers 2011

  • An acknowledgment in Sontag's book leads Mr. Morris to Ulrich Keller, the author of a book on Crimean War photography, who thinks that—although he has no proof—it is obvious that Fenton moved the cannonballs.

    The Ever-Questioning Eye William Meyers 2011

  • And neither does Malcolm Daniel, of the Metropolitan Museum, who bases his opinion on evidence that the British soldiers would often pick up cannonballs to use them as return fire.

    The Ever-Questioning Eye William Meyers 2011

  • Paul Getty Museum does not believe Fenton moved the cannonballs.

    The Ever-Questioning Eye William Meyers 2011

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