fusillade
Example Sentences
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Chinese officials directed a rhetorical fusillade at Ms. Takaichi, and have ratcheted up economic pressure by discouraging Chinese tourism to Japan and restricting rare-earth mineral exports.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
In the unprecedented wind-driven fires of January, a fusillade of embers flew from burning hillside brush to neighborhoods, igniting houses and any fencing and furniture around them that would burn.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2025
A fusillade of calcium batteries and white plastic bags drifted above the landscape along with birds and the final image was a dove soaring above the desolation.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023
This mystified the crowd enough to stop the fusillade.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022
This soon became clear when a platoon of otters on the ramparts unloosed a rattling fusillade of heavy pebbles.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing fusillade
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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National Spelling Bee '14: Prelims Round 2
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