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fusillade

[fyoo-suh-layd, -lahd, -zuh-] / ˈfju səˌleɪd, -ˌlɑd, -zə- /


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She said she took out her phone and started recording after the first errant missile from the fusillade sped directly toward the Angel City team bench.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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




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