fusillade

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

An Israeli fusillade around noon Sunday and in the afternoon saw four areas in Tehran targeted, including major commercial thoroughfares, according to state media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2025

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024

This fusillade of explosions in quick succession produces a powerful galactic wind blowing gas out of the galaxy.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024

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

In the evening and night the latter showed special activity, star rockets and other fireworks being used to illumine the opposing positions, which were heavily fusilladed.

From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

We saw and fusilladed the Pom-poms through this smoke at 10,000 yards with the 4.7's, and at 5 p.m. we had the whole ground in our possession.

From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate) Burne

I was so appalled by their stories and by the incessant cannonading and fusillading that one evening I attempted to go down into a cellar and stay there.

From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Marie Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Accordingly alongside of these bonfires of Church balustrades, and sounds of fusillading and noyading, there rise quite another sort of fires and sounds: Smithy-fires and Proof-volleys for the manufacture of arms.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle