How To Use Broadside In A Sentence
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The driver ran a stop light and broadsided the truck.
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the ship was broadside to the dock
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Randall's first publications in 1965 were literally broadsides - single poems printed on large sheets of paper that sold for fifty cents.
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White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom.
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I lowered the rifle and saw that he had stopped and was standing broadside looking at us.
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The Monitor proved impervious to the Virginia's broadsides and captured the imaginations of naval officials and the public.
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After fifteen minutes the rudder was broken off and she was broadside to the weather.
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In three cases, words were added from broadsides or other printed sources.
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There were numerous illustrated broadsides and woodcuts which carried their message in visual form.
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They printed their broadsides in a sufficient edition so that all participants in the program could have one.
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To do this they would have to come up alongside our ships leaving them exposed to a broadside from English cannons on our ships.
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A Thai coastal patrol boat caught broadside on by the waves had been tumbled over and over and finished hundreds of yards inshore.
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To the right and left the barren mountains reared their enormous baldness to the sun, deserts raised up broadside, as it were, and set on end, that their bareness might be the better seen and known to the world around.
Taquisara
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A mere five gun ports open across their broadside.
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The turret is not a movable one, but the guns can be trained to bear either fore or aft, or as broadside guns likewise.
The Confederate Steam-Ram Stonewall in the Lisbon Harbour
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To my knowledge, there was no such broadside written for Captain Gordon, so I took it upon myself to create one—a “come-all-ye”—in the traditional mode.
Hanging Captain Gordon
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At 1.35 pm, Nelson, pacing his quarterdeck amidst the crash of the broadsides, calm amidst the smoke that wreathed Victory, was giving his orders quietly and firmly, as always.
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The tracings turned up in a broadside published by John Taylor through the Nauvoo Neighbor on 24 June.
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That junk astern of us has just treated us to a broadside of langrage, and Chips's opinion of the pair of them is that they are a couple of piratical craft.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
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I brought the boat in broadside to the beach.
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The Social Democratic leader launched a broadside against both monetary and political union.
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Rhode's craft was suddenly broadsided by a direct hit as it took a defensive position in front of Porter's smoking craft.
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Plumes of white smoke and sparks rose into the evening sky as each man o’ war loosed off a deafening broadside.
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He furiously pointed at Powell and launched a broadside of obscenities at the Secretary.
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They printed a broadside in two colors on an early nineteenth-century Columbian handpress in an edition sufficient for all participants in the workshops to have one.
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His van was hit broadside by a speeding car.
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He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality.
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But the Labour leader delivered a bitter broadside.
The Sun
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson
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This one I missed seeing until it was nearly too late, and as I took evasive action I nearly broadsided another car that I was not even aware was there!
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Marking a break from tradition, they were not policy documents, but broadsides against individuals.
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The broadside on the food industry was taken seriously by the F.D.A. and touched off a scramble by producers to head off regulation, confidential company records and interviews show.
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As far as a modern USS Constitution (old 'ironsides') to blast a broadside and solve the problem of these pirates, please reread my March 25, 2007 OEN article, "With their own Rope" by
How To Deal With Pirates (American, not Somalian)
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Mr. Berlusconi was broadsided by a wave of criticism on Friday when the weekly magazine L'Espresso reported that Mr. Lavitola called Mr. Berlusconi from Bulgaria on Aug. 24, seeking advice on how to respond to the investigation.
Berlusconi Faces New Storm
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And he's delivered a stinging broadside to his fellow MPs.
The Sun
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A purplish, long, vaguely cylindrical ship shot up into the air, and rammed him full broadside.
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Englishmen the devastating effect which that single broadside of langrage had wrought upon the unfortunate craft's crew.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
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Thus the broadside - generally a single sheet printed on one side - gained popularity and usefulness.
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Can the government survive this latest broadside from its own supporters?
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Ever since I was broadsided in a hit and run incident, my door and lock just don't function as they should all the time.
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While the Roma may be quick, she only has two Class-Two forward mounts and two on each broadside.
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Asteroid brightnesses change every few hours as they spin, first brightening when they are broadside to us and fading when end-on.
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But Marry Houston's truck hit the outside wall and caromed into Gaughan, who was broadsided by Bryan Refiner after spinning toward the infield.
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The bidarka turned broadside and the ripple of surf threatened to swamp it, only a naked boy ran into the water and pulled the bow high up on the sand.
Nam-Bok, the Unveracious
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Macdonough then used his preset kedge anchors to spin his ship around in place and bring his other broadside to bear.
Between War and Peace
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The dahabiyeh -- her very name, the _Loulia_, has a gentle, seductive, cooing sound -- drifts broadside to the current with furled sails, or glides smoothly on before an amiable north wind with sails unfurled.
The Spell of Egypt
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Just as the gunboat nearest the polacre -- finding the hail, for her to bring to, unheeded -- fired a shot into her, the brig's head paid off, and she poured a broadside into the two gunboats.
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
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The Social Democratic leader launched a broadside against both monetary and political union.
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I saw Magneezhy clap his hand to his brow, wheel round like a peerie, or a sheep seized with the sturdie, and then play flap down on his broadside, breaking the necks of half-a-dozen cabbage-stocks -- three of which were afterwards clean lost, as we could not put them all into the pot at one time.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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It lay dormant for more than a century, until peace activists, suffragists and labor leaders of the teens, twenties and thirties breathed life into its words with their fiery speeches and broadsides.
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Roche has worked like a terrier on the campaign, cancelling his summer holidays and launching a series of blistering broadsides on the No side.
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Cheap tracts and single sheet broadsides fed an apparently insatiable popular appetite for novelty, sensation and titillation.
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No other property gets taken away after 10 or 20 years, they wrote in a broadside, so why should books?
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He stands broadside to the road's line of travel, his front feet at the bottom of the cutbank where the road is in a trough sliced through a low hill to ease the grade.
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He reached for the door, but the window hit his knuckles hard; it forced his arm back and left him to be broadsided by the door—right in the balls.
Arcane Circle
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The boat swung broadside on to the current of the river.
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Resting upon the water-belt and the athwartship or diagonal armor, and following the same direction is a layer of armor usually somewhat thinner which is called the lower case-mate armor; it extends up to the lower edge of the broadside gun ports, and resting upon it in turn is the upper case-mate armor, following the same direction, and forming the protection for the broadside battery.
Marvels of Modern Science
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This is not a broadsided criticism of current policy.
Christopher Sabatini: As Latin America Changes Will the U.S. Policy Debate?
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The Virginia carried ten major guns (four in each broadside, one bow and one stern gun) and an iron ram.
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The Social Democratic leader launched a broadside against both monetary and political union.
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Can the government survive this latest broadside from its own supporters?
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The vehicle driven by Erin Brockovich, an unemployed single mother of three, is broadsided by a speeding car at an intersection.
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Janus Press has to date produced approximately 100 publications — books, pamphlets, and broadsides -, many of them designed, illustrated, type-set, printed (sometimes on paper made by the artist), and bound by Van Vliet herself in a well-equipped studio, printshop, bindery of her own design.
2009 October 09 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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While our wingman searched another sector, we decided to search for the raft upwind, figuring a barge broadside to the wind would blow farther than a small raft with a sea anchor.
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A nice buck stepped out of the bush maybe 100 yards to my left and posed broadside, just like a picture in a magazine.
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In an apparent bid to save the crumbling alliance, the two men met yesterday at an undisclosed venue in Cape Town after firing public broadsides at each other for over a week.
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Without hesitating La Buse sailed straight in, fired a broadside at the galleon, then boarded it, almost without resistance.
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From the floods of pamphlets and broadsides of the period, we see newspapers and popular journals, as we will know them, beginning to emerge and to differentiate functions and audiences.
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The lead doe minced into an opening and paused broadside at 140 yards.
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This was doubtless unauthorized, for as the ship passed on, the Confederate, which proved to be the McRae, discharged a broadside of grape-shot and langrage, part of the latter being copper slugs, which were found on the Iroquois's decks in quantities after the action.
The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.
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Three years ago, in Arlington Heights, Illinois, Police Officer Chuck Tiedge's squad car was broadsided by a hearse that ran a red light.
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Anyone who was broadsided because they forgot to look left before entering an intersection will tell you how they wished they could turn back the clock.
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He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality.
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Because warships mounted almost all their guns on the broadside, and were vulnerable to fire from ahead or astern, actions were usually fought in line ahead.
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More quickly than Honor would have believed possible, the boat whacked broadside into the end of the dock.
AMBERBEACH
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Cheap tracts and single sheet broadsides fed an apparently insatiable popular appetite for novelty, sensation and titillation.
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In the other case, a civilian ran a red traffic light and broadsided an Air Force member.
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The Prime Minister delivered a broadside at her critics.
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Both were also lauded - Mary for her beauty and grace, the Mary Rose because as one of the first warships equipped to fire broadside, she was a marvel of her time.
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The insurance industry spent months presenting an aura of "quiet constructiveness," he noted, only to launch a sudden "broadside" that rocked the Senate Finance Committee and "shocked" the administration.
Ari Melber: Rattlesnakes, Progressive Bluffing and The Public Option
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As the waiting travellers watched in frozen horror, it slewed crazily to one side as it carried on towards them, wrecking the parapets and heading broadside for the station.
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He was standing broadside at what I would estimate to be the second-closest shot I have ever made in the field, about 35 yards.
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The Social Democratic leader launched a broadside against both monetary and political union.
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson
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One of the ways in which the ballad was disseminated was through public performance in the streets by balladeers, who might also sell copies of the songs, printed on broadsides.
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The English drove in hard and close, pouring broadsides into the Armada, though they still could not break its formation.
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Lining up your shot while not giving your foe a chance at your broadside is a challenge, and having the biggest ship doesn't always ensure victory.
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And at the same time Dave Haselwood printed up a broadside poem of mine that later appeared in Memoirs of an Interglacial Age, so I could go on a trip with Michael McClure to New York to do readings at colleges and stuff.
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He tripped them up with facts, ambuscaded them with facts, bombarded them with broadsides of facts.
Chapter 1: My Eagle
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As the waiting travellers watched in frozen horror, it slewed crazily to one side as it carried on towards them, wrecking the parapets and heading broadside for the station.
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The deer were paint balled in the rump from the broadside.
I've been thinking of using a paint ball gun for coyote hunting!
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the wave caught the canoe broadside and capsized it
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Nathan reports that no-one saw them after they'd dispersed into the crowd to distribute the Committee's broadside condemning Reverend Owings's capitalistic dogma.
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HMS Duke of York fired 80 broadsides; and the Allied ships fired a total of 2,195 shells during the engagement.
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And so he bade his ships drop away sternwards; and then Earl Eric lay broadside on.
The Red True Story Book
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As the missiles bore in, the Confederate vessels turned as one and presented their heavily armored broadsides to the incoming fire.
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Northern Broadsides are experts at celebrating the broad humour present in all Shakespeare's plays, with some outstanding performances and impeccable comic timing.
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a broadside attack
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This odd broadside concluded by proclaiming, ‘We speak in this forum because it is the only one you have put at our disposal.’
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Throughout the collection is an assortment of rare books and contemporary works including novels, short stories, poetry, plays, essays, literary historical and critical texts, literary broadsides, and the like.
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LOS ANGELES — Authorities are considering charges for three boys suspected of being in a car that ran a red light, struck and killed a pedestrian and broadsided a school bus.
Downtown LA School Bus Crash Kills One, 38 Injured
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But the broadside was launched half a century ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Really, it was headed west on the Route 30 Interstate and it negotiated a lane change without signaling and it struck me broadside.
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If you're presented with a broadside shot, the heart-lung is almost directly behind the foreleg, but I realize such a textbook shot is a rarity.
Should you shoot a deer in the shoulder or right behind th shoulder?
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson
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This produces a bright radar echo called a broadside flash, which is easy to home in on.
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His political opponents broadsided the candidate.
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And he's delivered a stinging broadside to his fellow MPs.
The Sun
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson
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I went still hunting and this buck walked 20 yards in front of me broadsided.
Field & Stream
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The shares nose-dived in the following years, as Russia was broadsided by the worst recession in more than a decade, and the shares haven't reached their offering price since.
Putin, in Campaign Mode, Proposes VTB Share Buyback
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The parlement member delivered a broadside against the government's recent policies.
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This is reportage for environmentalists, rather than a broadside to win round the unconverted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not until Nordau encountered Herzl did Jews figure into his broadside.
Bloodlust
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A ready market thus opened up for political propaganda - in the form of pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, squibs, and caricatures - and the print trade rushed to meet it.
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The Prime Minister delivered a broadside at her critics.
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The ship was moored broadside to the pier.
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The ship continued to beat on the rocks; and soon bilging, fell with her broadside towards the shore.
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Brednich discussed a 17th-century painting depicting broadsides being carried by a street crier.
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It's a countryman's broadside against misguided townie sentiment, and proof that the turkey industry is far from black-and-White.
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Hucksters flaunted their specious cure-ails on posters, broadsides, and other printed formats.
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The rhythms come from ragga, drum 'n' bass, even Bollywood, while punk's fuzzy guitar broadsides pepper the choruses.
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Dali responded by printing a broadside, detailing his repudiation of the pavilion.
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The _Chesapeake_ swung slowly, broadside to the first of the ebb and with the wind on her port beam, Mr. Gibney knocked out the stopper with his trusty hammer and away went the rusty chain, singing through the hawsepipe.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
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I'd usually get a laugh out of that line before the enquirer invariably launched into a broadside on biased journalism, sensational reporting, the media's moral bankruptcy, its role as a propagandist and apologist for those in power, and corporate influence on the news.
Gail Vida Hamburg: Castle Owners of the Fourth Estate Flog Usurper, Julien Assange
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If they must, they could turn the wagons broadside to the wind and use them for cover, and their felted tents and sleeping sacks would keep them from freezing to death.
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But all of that changed on November 5, 1983 when a drunk driver broadsided the Fisher's car one block away from their house.
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A canoe caught broadside to big waves and without realistic freeboard can be a big problem especially if the canoe isn't a buoyant.
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You may follow the adventures of a letter through any passage that has particularly pleased you; find it, perhaps, denied a while, to tantalise the ear; find it fired again at you in a whole broadside; or find it pass into congenerous sounds, one liquid or labial melting away into another.
Essays in the Art of Writing
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Norwegian version seems to be the port, broadside view showing her carrying 3 squaresails and 2 stuns'ls.
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Now Blake Morrison turns his attention to Charlotte, Anne and Emily in a new adaptation, produced by Northern Broadsides, which offers more than a nod to Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which is believed to have been inspired by the Brontës and their brother Branwell, who frittered away his early promise.
This week's new theatre and dance
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Okay, so since the Bomber's Broadside went to bed (the project formerly known as the Yankee Annual), the fleamarkets are over, a pile of other deadlines have also been kicked, and the cowboy erotica anthology is almost done, I find myself for the past ten days in a state of actual depression.
February 23rd, 2007
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Finally… he swooped down, raking the cruiser's starboard broadside with his guns, destroying three of the seven turrets placed there.
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Khosa's truck struck two pedestrians on Marine Drive, broadsided a sport utility truck, sending it and its driver flying, and hit a parked car.
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We then discovered the sternmost ship wearing also; wore ship immediately after her, and gave her a stern rake, she luffing to on our starboard bow and giving us her larboard broadside.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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Animals don't come off assembly lines, nor do they obligingly stand around broadside while the hunter finds a solid rest and manipulates the power ring.
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Caleb Kwan was in a rather serious car accident tonight when his BMW was broadsided by a large truck.
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In my experience it seldom happens this way, but suddenly there was a magnificent Kudu bull standing broadside at about 50 yards, with a clear lane through the bush to him.
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The Social Democratic leader launched a broadside against both monetary and political union.
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The ram was standing broadside at about 125 yards.
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Finder moved, too, tacking across the wind to come broadside.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Once, twice, three times she has banged away a broadside at the rebel sidewheel, and now the batteries on shore in turn open fire on her.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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What makes jack crevalle difficult to land is their tendency while resting to turn broadside to the angler.
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She was perfectly willing for me to dance until 12 o'clock at the imminent peril of my going to sleep on the after-watch -- but then she would top off with a very inconsistent sermon on dancing in general; ending with a terrific broadside aimed at that heresy of heresies, the 'schottische'.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
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From Montreal to Toronto to Vancouver, Ignatieff has stirred new energy in his party's ranks with his family-oriented promises, his openness and his broadsides against what he calls the undemocratic practices of Harper.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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When dealing with his treatment of broadsides, it must be remembered that he has strong prejudices in this area.
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson
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But the broadside was launched half a century ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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His broadsides, all the more rattling for being edged by a coruscating wit, aren't reserved solely for Bill.
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In an interview Saturday, MSNBC President Phil Griffin - a frequent target of Olbermann's broadsides within MSNBC - declined to talk about the reasons for the sudden loss of his top-rated attraction.
Olbermann's split with MSNBC may have been long in the making
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Of course, in theory, the game animal is standing broadside, giving the hunter plenty of time to size it properly, select the correct aiming point, and press the trigger.
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the train hit the truck broadside
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We broadside off the backwash from a boulder as big as a house.
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Whatever is to be filmed - from pamphlets to schoolbooks to broadsides - is positioned carefully in a large, jointed cradle under a wide pane of glass.
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At around 50 yards I had placed a 325-grain.50 AE bullet into that pig standing broadside.
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The driver ran a stop light and broadsided the truck.
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Their carrier sustained roughly forty broadside plasma hits and continued to move forward.
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson
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His broadside against his critics seemed more like the rantings of a schoolboy than a literary lion.
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A woman backing out of her driveway was broadsided on the driver's side of her car by another vehicle heading south on 131st Avenue SE in east Snohomish.
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Most of these were in print and available as broadsides, but that is not the point here: they were ‘traditional’ in the sense of having been in circulation time out of mind, and had not been made up by ballad-mongers between 1800 and 1850.
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The two foxes met broadside, spiralling inwards anticlockwise to touch whiskers before gliding apart in opposite directions.
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Now within cannon range, the Hurricane and her consorts unmasked their broadsides and hurled a firestorm of plasma cannon fire at the Asp and the remaining corvettes.
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A ready market thus opened up for political propaganda - in the form of pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, squibs, and caricatures - and the print trade rushed to meet it.
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One tank barely ten meters from Blaine had taken a shot full broadside.
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Hell, what would the emancipationist think, who used to stand on the front porch of his Italianate home, his hands stained with newsprint after firing off another broadside round of anti-slavery screeds, surveying all the lands around him?
Driving directions
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Remember that the ray will use their width broadside against the tide during the fight and you need the power to drag them back against the tide flow.
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There was a free brochure, done in French fold, with a text pamphlet and, on the verso, a souvenir broadside printed in willow branches like those that appeared in a stretch of wallpaper marking the entrance to the show.
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But the Labour leader delivered a bitter broadside.
The Sun
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U.S. 60 bypass and "broadsided" Danhauer's vehicle, who was westbound on the bypass.
Evansville Courier & Press Stories
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The Social Democratic leader launched a broadside against both monetary and political union.
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While the two ships were lying almost broadside to each other, gun crews of both sides kept blasting away.
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At five minutes past six, ranged up on the starboard side of the sternmost ship, about 300 yards distant, and commenced the action by broadsides, both ships returning our fire with the greatest spirit for about fifteen minutes, then the fire of the enemy beginning to slacken, and the great column of smoke collected under our lee, induced (p. 248) us to cease our fire to ascertain their positions and conditions.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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The story was printed as a broadside - a single sheet of paper about 2ft x 3ft - with high-quality paper and elegant typography.
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On our side (that is to say, Powell's side) is an intelligent lawyer (Morris Carnovsky) who does a thoroughly creditable job of broadening the young fanatic's philosophy, finally making him see that the murderer of his wife is not the single enemy, and that a really successful attack must be a broadside against all Fascists ....
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
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The cachet on this cover, featuring a battleship with cage masts firing a broadside is a Stinemetts design.
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The battleships opened up their broadsides, and half the alien ships were crushed before their element command could react.
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Any ill-advised surfer who turns a 9-or 10-foot longboard broadside into the tumble of a small wave knows the incredible power of moving water.
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Both his mastery of the irascible and unpredictable George II and his control of a previously unmanageable Parliament were portrayed in countless broadsides and prints as the arts of a veritable political conjuror.
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As soon, therefore, as he was within a hundred yards of her stern, he ordered the helm to be put a-starboard, and the driver and after-sails to be brailed up and shivered; and, as the ship fell off, gave the enemy her whole broadside.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
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We were southbound on a major interstate, completely oblivious to the fact that, within a matter of seconds, another vehicle nearly would broadside us.
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After the official engrossed parchment copy was signed on 2 August, broadsides were distributed throughout the country.
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But Berkovic refused to go without a firing a broadside at O'Neill, claiming the Hoops boss ‘did not even speak’ to the former club record signing.
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The Virginia carried ten major guns (four in each broadside, one bow and one stern gun) and an iron ram.
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The Social Democratic leader launched a broadside against both monetary and political union.
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Each bolt of lightning exposed a photograph of towering thunderheads - the galleons of the gods, trading broadsides in the terrific light of creation.
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Coyote describes the introspective Billy Murcott as "the unsung genius of the Diggers," author of several influential Digger broadsides and articles and the member who synthesized the concept of free in the group's early months.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
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The Confederate broadsides contained fewer guns with each shot and fewer missiles were launched from the attackers.
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Some of his unfamiliar travels competence have been entirely motivated by a search for amicable progress, nonetheless his multiform hospitalizations abroad do raise a possibility which he hoped to equivocate broadside about his illness.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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We in the Content bare up with their vice-admiral, and (ranging along by his broadside aweather of him) gave him a volley of muskets and our great ordinance; then, coming up with another small ship ahead of the former, we hailed her in such sort that she payd roome.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure
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Swift Winds is a back-pocket compendium of subversive texts, marvelous manifestos, mutinous rants, outrageous ideas, utopian dreams, impossible demands and incendiary broadsides strategically aimed at countering the pathos of miserablism with the uncontrollable laughter of the insurgent imagination.
Portland Book Events: March 22-28 - Reading Local: Portland
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A broadside has been issued at ‘the dole office’ for alleged harassment of people who want to claim dole.
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Callinde rounded to weather with a shattering bang of sails, her lapstrake planking exposed broadside to the demon fleet.
Shadowfane
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His leader Don Bash copped a broadside from one respondent who described him as ‘a wimp.’
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This illustration appeared on an 1835 broadside illustrating John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, ‘My countrymen in Chains.’
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Because the surveyor must be able to view the length of a log through the angle gauge, it should be observed that as one views the log more end-on instead of broadside, the likelihood of sampling the log vanishes.
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Jerry's car was broadsided by a pickup truck.
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The first rank of four turreted monitors could fire head-on; then seven warships could fire broadside at the fort as they steered sharply to port into the bay.
