broadside
Example Sentences
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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
Mohamed Salah has been welcomed back from the Africa Cup of Nations with open arms due to a lack of firepower up front despite his public broadside towards Slot last month.
From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026
Musk, who had a rather messy departure from his official government role in May, is once again making waves with a social media broadside against another Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025
It's a broadside against a consumer culture, in which people and the natural world become commodities.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025
“Why don’t you bring the broadside over to Number Three tonight and we’ll slog through that wretched thing together.”
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.