Examples from literature

• Both frigates immediately commenced a furious cannonade, which they maintained without intermission for three quarters of an hour, running before the wind under top-gallant-sails, and very near each other. 
• Commodore David D. Porter, with a formidable fleet, bombarded the stronghold from the river, while Grant's kept up a cannonade day and night from the land side. 
• Some of the houses seemed to have been ruined by a cannonade. 
• Still the fort held out against the cannonade of the French. 
• The Germans prefaced their advance by a terrific cannonade.