enfilade

Brodsky, future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived in a single room that had been part of a palatial enfilade.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

Others are escort sprints where you have to guide a vulnerable ally through enfilade fire.

From Time ● Aug. 28, 2017

Anybody in the enfilade of dove gray salons, where Christian Dior himself once trod, could feel the hand of history.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2010

Wright put a winter garden on one of the terraces, which, he explains, “made a space for entertaining in an enfilade with the breakfast room and the elliptical dining room.”

From Architectural Digest ● Dec. 21, 2009

The guns to the right, on the Rocky Hill, would enfilade the line.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

The salient shuts in the end of the valley and enfilades it.

From Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 by John Masefield

The trench enfilades the valley beyond, and the valley is covered with barbed-wire and gun-pits.

From With the French in France and Salonika by Richard Harding Davis

"It's not much of a place for it," he said; "where we ought to have it is to the right of the sap, so that it enfilades the whole front of that trench."

From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather

Ehrenbreitstein completely commands all the adjacent country and enfilades the embouchure of the Moselle which flows into the Rhine at Coblentz, where there is an elegant stone bridge across the Moselle.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye

The next and still more improved form of work is the bastioned fort, which consists of projecting bastions at the corners, the fire from which enfilades the ditches.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Traveling there, Ireland photographed enfiladed rooms in knotty pine, and glass-front built-ins abandoned to a lone rifle and scant rows of books.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

"They’re simple and not enfiladed, so the progression from one to another never feels monotonous. You always pass through a connective space with natural light."

From Architectural Digest ● Sep. 9, 2014

The next charge struck die angle at the boulder, at the colors, lapped around it, ran into the new line, was enfiladed, collapsed.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

And some of both, distributed round the house, already enfiladed it.

From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

Their rifle fire stretched from the extremities of either flank and enfiladed the interior trenches of the kopje.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

Batteries of German cannon and machine guns, perched on the cliffs and hidden in caves, could turn an enfilading fire on the beaches, which bristled with barbed wire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both were strong works, with bastions and angles, and ditches that could be swept by an enfilading fire.

From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Charles Carleton Coffin

So, also, if we can obtain an oblique or enfilading fire on his troops, it will be very destructive.

From A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry by Francis J. (Francis James) Lippitt

The result, however, was that the Irish Tynesiders were exposed on their right to a deadly enfilading fire that swept across from Oviliers, which was not yet in British possession.

From The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' by Michael MacDonagh

Then other detachments follow these, as if to form an enfilading line when the time comes for it.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Mayne Reid