How to Use fusillade in a Sentence

fusillade

noun
  • A fusillade of bullets filled the courtyard.
  • Tristesse et pensées pour celles et ceux qui sont tombés à Pittsburgh lors de la fusillade.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018
  • Tips can be tossed over the edge of the glass or sent in a fusillade with a money gun loaded with a stack of bills.
    — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • And to say its fusillade of jokes is hit-and-miss would also be a charitable take.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • An archerfish can squirt water in a single shot or in a machine gun–like fusillade.
    — Jonathan Balcombe, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • These were of course followed by an equally robust fusillade of calls to do more than simply vote.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 11 July 2022
  • In a short amount of time, we were treated to a cascading fusillade of diss tracks from both parties.
    — Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
  • Iran’s military said the fusillade was a warning.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • Barrow and the woman answered by reaching for their guns and they were met with a fusillade from a dozen guns.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 May 2018
  • The fusillade was the latest sign that Yemen’s blood bath is a growing threat to the region.
    — Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2018
  • More than 30 people were injured in the fusillade of bullets.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
  • The sound is like a fusillade of manual typewriters, or a hailstorm on a tin roof.
    — David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Syria has twice been on the receiving end of a fusillade of missiles for crossing red lines.
    — Hugh Hewitt, Twin Cities, 5 June 2019
  • Shouts are heard in the background and screams after officers fire a fusillade of shots from their handguns.
    — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Better to go down in an artful slow-motion fusillade than to shuffle off the pop-culture map the way these guys do.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 28 Aug. 2020
  • But then suddenly, out of nowhere, came a fusillade of bullets aimed at our heads and the upper parts of our bodies.
    — Ahmed Dader august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • But then there’s a quick fusillade of lemongrass and lime leaf, a tidal wave of Thai basil and some serious oomph from the fish sauce.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The next thing Vargas heard was a fusillade of bullets blasting out the windows of his partner’s truck.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The book opens with a fusillade of keen, musical poems about Kotzin's facedown with cancer.
    — Philly.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Yet Trump’s multiyear fake-news fusillade against CNN has paid off.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Despite the fusillade, there were no injuries among the people nearby who were not involved in the gun battle, police said.
    — oregonlive, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The staccato pace of the tragedies, echoing the fusillade of gunfire, can leave little time to absorb their full import.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Minutes after the man mimicked the rockets, a fusillade of them sailed into a residential area next to the stores.
    — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • Tung kept UConn in the game despite a fusillade from Penn State in the first period.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2025
  • That stance has drawn a fusillade of online attacks and personal threats against the secretary of state and others in his office.
    — Author: Amy Gardner, Keith Newell, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The cost of launching a fusillade of one-star reviews on Goodreads to tank a book before it is even published is already next to zero.
    — Suzanne Nossel, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
  • The first episode starts out in the middle of a splattery battle sequence, and the first line of dialogue is a fusillade of F-bombs.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
  • And moments of humor bring sweet relief — as in one scene where the issuance of a macho challenge inspires a fusillade of flying gloves.
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 June 2017
  • The table of contents is a fusillade of facts that have emerged, in unbroken lines, from centuries of persecution.
    — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • The fusillade killed two, wounded dozens and left 65 bullet holes on the plaster wall behind Kelley.
    — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2022

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