Definitions
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- adjective Resembling the shape or sound of a
cannon
Etymologies
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Examples
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In one motion, Elizabeth skidded to a halt, popped to her feet, and using her cannonlike throwing arm, fired the rock toward home.
Home Of The Brave Loren Long 2010
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In one motion, Elizabeth skidded to a halt, popped to her feet, and using her cannonlike throwing arm, fired the rock toward home.
Home Of The Brave Loren Long 2010
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The 21-gun salute is the nation's highest honor, fired from big cannonlike guns at the funerals of current and ex-presidents.
ASK TIP SHEET 2007
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Somewhere deeper in the business district, two cannonlike booms shot a mass of fresh sparks into the night.
Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006
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When he was in the air I heard the cannonlike pistol shot from down among the trees.
A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002
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When he was in the air I heard the cannonlike pistol shot from down among the trees.
A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002
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When he was in the air I heard the cannonlike pistol shot from down among the trees.
A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002
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"Only not quite machinery, this," Rayne said softly, bending down to examine the cannonlike device, a weapon which, according to Urza, had once sprayed a fiery, gelatinous substance that clung even to Urza's pure-energy form and burned ceaselessly.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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