cannon
noun
a mounted gun for firing heavy projectiles; a gun, howitzer, or mortar.
were cannoning
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past progressiveof cannon.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Omnibuses and taxicabs crawled painfully through the gloom; pedestrians were cannoning into each other at every step.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Edward S. Hodgson
