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
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  • 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
  • On 26 August 1944 he walked down the Champs Elysées to the acclamation of a vast crowd, and then went on to Notre Dame, where he stood unmoved when a sudden fusillade broke out inside the cathedral.
  • The fusillade to protect his retreat began and as he went, keeping low, he dragged with him the spool of wire to be connected to the detonator.
  • PARIS— Boeing Co. continues to study the future of its best-selling, 737 single-aisle airplane as European rival Airbus prepares to announce at this week's Paris Air Show a fusillade of orders for a revamped version of its competing A320 jet. Boeing Continues to Assess 737 Redesign
  • The officers fusilladed the mountain of flesh, succeeding only in rousing it to added fury. Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody
  • We’ve had the Stern Report, a feast of apocalyptism and bad economics, disappear in a fusillade of yawns, and Sir Nicholas himself leave the Civil Service. Merry Christmas « Climate Audit
  • Given that context, his recent fusillade of fulmination must have been nothing more than friendly fire.
  • To his amazement, the target opens his eyes after the fusillade and discovers he is still alive. First Contact
  • The flavour was zestily good, though the fusillade of pips made for less-than-easy eating. Times, Sunday Times
  • There would a shot fired and then another and then a fusillade that would rip Dwayne Joseph Bohannon apart. FATAL FLAW
  • (Soundbite of music) WAS: In the beginning, though, it was Miles the bebopper who burst on the scene, stringing rat-a-tat fusillades over furious tempos, a style he picked up from saxophonist and bandmate Charlie Parker. Unpack This: 70 CDs Of Miles Davis
  • Nobunaga's men took shelter themselves behind palisades and fusilladed the enemy so hotly that the old-fashioned hand-to-hand fighting became almost impossible. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
  • Ms. Hills ran into a fusillade of hostile questions at Tuesday's committee meeting.
  • A deadly fusillade of slaved ACP missiles raced out at the Destroyer's bridge tower.
  • Seven of the Sioux were executed in the ensuing fusillade, and one badly wounded man managed to get away by hiding in the underbrush.
  • Some hours later a furious fusillade [Transcriber: original 'fusilade'] was heard in front of our line, though no bullets came over our trenches. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915
  • Full page in garish colour, body of General Freg fusilladed by troops still loyal to General Prado. Mexico
  • Dipping into the nation's exchequer, he exclaimed: ‘Show me the general who can withstand a fusillade of pesos!’
  • Reports indicate that she made a valiant attempt to escape the fusillade of bullets but was chased and shot anyway.
  • Burke's phrase of "the swinish multitude," applied to mobs, was then in every body's mouth; and, accordingly, after my brother had recovered from his first astonishment at this audacious mutiny, he made us several sweeping bows that looked very much like tentative rehearsals of a sweeping _fusillade_, and then addressed us in a very brief speech, of which we could distinguish the words _pearls_ and _swinish multitude_, but uttered in a very low key, perhaps out of some lurking consideration for the two young strangers. Autobiographical Sketches
  • But the thrust of this series is to unleash a fusillade of jokes, some of which are rattled off so fast that multiple viewings are required to pick them out.
  • A fusillade of cruise missiles had been launched from four US cruisers and a submarine, and a supporting British sub.
  • 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. With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service
  • Later, he comfortably fusilladed the windows of his most intimate friend. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
  • I then wondered whether, if a sniper starting shooting into the crowd, I would be able to find adequate cover from the fusillade of bullets which would be raining down upon the commuters and workers crossing the road.
  • Each carries a rifle, and every living thing that appears on the banks or on the water is fusilladed with Winchesters until it is dead or out of sight. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
  • The search was wrapped up, and soldiers jumped back into the vehicles-buttoning up for an expected fusillade of rocks, if not gunfire, as they left.
  • On arrival they were met by a fusillade of fire from the top of the arch, bombs being thrown down on the military vehicles.
  • Almost any newly translated French or Italian philosopher becomes fashionable, regardless of whether appropriate or not, and is hailed with a fetishistic fusillade of anachronistic footnotes.
  • Both were killed in a fusillade of bullets fired at close range.
  • But the only casualty of the fusillade was a little white goat who happened to be standing idly by, just in the wrong spot. The Lonesome Dove Series
  • The fusillade of 7.62mm rounds chewed the three jihadis to pieces. Gideon’s war
  • Pitta enjoyed initial success, his modest fleet savaging Grunger's armada amidst a devastating fusillade of proton torpedoes.
  • Thousands of people were fusilladed without any form of trial.
  • The fusillades of the firing squads (at least one of which López himself directed) roared so often and so ubiquitously that some mistook them for the sound of Brazilian invaders.
  • Once brought under control by the mahouts, it lumbered across the river - this time to a fusillade of stones and rotting fruit thrown by the now vengeful onlookers.
  • Rasping winds arose and a fusillade of words rained down.
  • Pakistani Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, the Army chief of staff, prefers the training to the fusillade of missile strikes in the tribal areas from pilotless U.S. drones. Each One Teach One | ATTACKERMAN
  • All preparations having been slowly completed the day for departure arrived, and Chin, with much bowing and ceremonial posturing, having wished his wife and little son adieu, embarked with Wang, taking the equivalent of five thousand dollars [2] in sycee shoes and gold-dust, and amidst valedictory fusillades of fire-crackers, as well as a beating of gongs, the flotilla cast off and sailed away down river. Life and sport in China Second Edition
  • Mr. Powell, playing double-stroke rolls on his toms, was insinuative; Mr. Marsalis, starting out with a fusillade on his snare, was aggressive. Jazzfest: Drum Battles and a Tribute to Max Roach - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Fifty Spetsnaz men, dressed as Afghans, appeared and fired fusillades into the crowd. KARA KUSH
  • They went into hiding in Katlijk, but where betrayed and fusilladed by the German oppressor.
  • He is taught how to kill men; he is threatened, insulted, put in prison and told that it is an honor; and, if he does not care for that sort of honor, he is fusilladed. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Most of the members - including Sam - were sentenced to death and fusilladed in the early morning of 1 July 1443 in the Dunes of Overveen.
  • Third, other witnesses agreed that the fusillade began almost immediately after the first few shots.
  • He effectively followed up with his fusillade of punches to prompt the stoppage.
  • She aligned the sights of her rifle and loosed a fusillade of bolts that split the rocks apart.
  • But instead of blasting him with fusillades from the TV, they must reach him through hundreds of Web sites, channels, video games, even billboards.
  • He feathers the stage with his tap-dancing, which is of the light-footed fusillade school.
  • our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise
  • Burke's phrase of "the swinish multitude," applied to mobs, was then in every body's mouth; and, accordingly, after my brother had recovered from his first astonishment at this audacious mutiny, he made us several sweeping bows that looked very much like tentative rehearsals of a sweeping _fusillade_, and then addressed us in a very brief speech, of which we could distinguish the words _pearls_ and _swinish multitude_, but uttered in a very low key, perhaps out of some lurking consideration for the two young strangers. Autobiographical Sketches
  • The match itself started 10 minutes late because of the terrible fusillade of fireworks and even military smoke shells.
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  • Then, from lower down to the right, there came a fusillade from the English lines suddenly breaking out, and after a few minutes as suddenly stopping again. Michael
  • Another fusillade of shots clipped nets and thumped into wood.
  • The unfortunate Native, expressing no opinion, suffered dreadfully; not merely in his moral feelings, which were regularly fusilladed by the Major every hour in the day, and riddled through and through, but in his sensitiveness to bodily knocks and bumps, which was kept continually on the stretch. Dombey and Son
  • All it took was one open-ended question about Android to unleash a fusillade of anti-Google invective. In the Plex

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