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

The fusillade reflected Russia’s renewed focus on striking Ukrainian energy facilities.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2024

After a few minutes, despite their fears of another fusillade, they said, they ran to assist the victim in the lot.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023

After navigating that first boundary, the Voyager probes entered the heliosheath, the region where the diminished solar wind continues to wither under a fusillade of gas and dust as the Solar System plows through space.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 27, 2022

The phrase volley of abuse, for example, uses the image of a fusillade of bullets to describe an outpouring of anger.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner