broadside
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Bass strategist Douglas Herman responded to Monday’s results by issuing a broadside against Raman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
The Dunlap broadside was a broadside in a figurative sense as well as a literal one, blasting its message like cannons fired from the side of a warship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
There was no immediate reaction to the broadside from Downing Street, where aides insist Sir Keir has acted in the British national interest, with a sense of where British public opinion is.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
If he finds it to his benefit to launch another broadside against Petro, he won’t hesitate to do it.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
You want a sea that will put on a good show when your lifeboat is broadside to it, though without capsizing your boat.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Meanwhile, here was a drama about humans living in a galaxy far, far away, broadsided by an enemy they didn’t take seriously enough.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
A speeding Dodge Ram had run a red light, broadsided a Honda Accord and caused it to hit a tow truck, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
Gragson slammed into the outside wall and then got spun helicopter style when broadsided by Landon Cassill.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
“Yeah,” Mr. Macron mumbled, before being broadsided by a bunch of other questions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
From the earliest moment that the dew would permit operations until the stooks stood eerie and indistinct in the thickening dusk the boys broadsided their two binders into the ranks of the standing grain.
From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead
It slid off the end of the runway, broadsiding a steel tower that held landing lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
They blew past two of the plesios, Missy clobbering one with her tail and broadsiding the other, sending it and its riders collapsing into the water.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
When the ships had swung apart, the broadsiding continued, increasingly to the advantage of the Serapis.
From Paul Jones by Hutchins Hapgood
All he asked of anybody, by God! was to be let alone, though this broadsiding of defenseless people made him sick at the stummick, it did.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne
Around and around she veered, broadsiding with astonishing accuracy, and knocking the spars about like a foot-ball team kicking a ball.
From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
