fusillade

How To Use fusillade In A Sentence

• It is the maxim which amid crashes and boings, jaunty jingles and fusillades of machine gun bullets has powered two philosophy graduates from the University of York to a fortune.
• Knight does not explain how he knew the shot must have come from inside the field, and since the cadet was in the second car, the police fusillade must have begun by the time he was climbing over the turnstiles.
• The column triggered a fusillade that recalled the sulfurous exchanges between Joseph Pulitzer and his contemporaries in an earlier era.
• There was a fusillade of bullets which spun me around.
• There would a shot fired and then another and then a fusillade that would rip Dwayne Joseph Bohannon apart. FATAL FLAW
• The last words of the speaker were nearly drowned in a heavy fusillade which issued from the woods close by. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee
• Ms. Hills ran into a fusillade of hostile questions at Tuesday's committee meeting.
• It is not easy to give a notion of his conduct in the Convention, without using those emphatic terms, guillotinade, noyade, fusillade, mitraillade. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
• In their body language and their rulings, the justices often make it clear that they are happier when the target of their fusillade is a familiar face. Latest Articles
• 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. World's War Events, Vol. I