How to Use broadside in a Sentence

broadside

1 of 3 noun

• The moose moved even closer and turned broadside, maybe 10 feet in front of me.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2022
• Step 4: Debark your bow with a drawknife, as shown below, and mark the shape of the bow’s broadside.
  — Andrew Del-Colle, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2020
• This produces a bright radar echo called a broadside flash, which is easy to home in on.
  — Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
• In fact, Ryan started his broadside on some of these very themes with an ad right out of the gate.
  — Cliff Schecter, The New Republic, 4 May 2022
• We’ve all seen or heard about the guy who missed a buck standing broadside at 80 yards.
  — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 19 Aug. 2020
• He was hit broadside by a truck, putting him in the hospital for over a year.
  — Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2022
• The buck was walking from right to left, but stopped broadside in the clearing just long enough for a clean shot.
  — Outdoor Life, 5 Jan. 2021
• Hours after the broadside, Macron and Trump sat side by side for a one-on-one meeting.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Dec. 2019
• Wilkins also launched a broadside over ads that have run on the subject.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2022
• House Democrats struck Big Tech with a broadside on Tuesday.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2020
• The angle needn’t be sharp—just a step or two beyond broadside is fine.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
• Not that the press is overly cowed by Harry’s broadside.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• That car was then struck broadside by a Toyota pickup truck and caught fire.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• An oncoming car hit the car broadside, killing his brother at the scene.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 13 June 2021
• The broadside against the prime minister’s spouse has been the talk of the Westminster bubble these past days.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
• The semi attempted to swerve to avoid the crash, the news release said, but struck the Pontiac broadside.
  — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2021
• Two of the crocs were already awake and moving toward the water, but the big one was still fast asleep, almost straight broadside to me.
  — Warren Page, Field & Stream, 13 Nov. 2020
• Finally, the deer turned broadside 28 yards away, and Cramer let an arrow fly.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 8 Dec. 2020
• Swept into a wall of trees, the heavily laden canoe went broadside to the river, then heeled over with a jerk.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 5 June 2020
• Just days after the release of the White House outline, Mr. Manchin held a press conference and launched a fresh broadside at it.
  — Andrew Duehren, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
• Bucks will almost always come to the front of the decoy, and that gives you a better chance to take a broadside or quartering away shot at the deer.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 10 Dec. 2019
• Poppert was hit broadside by a semi-truck and pushed north, police said.
  — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2021
• The group continued appealing to voters with the broadsides of the culture war.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The monster buck walked to within 20 yards, and turned perfectly broadside.
  — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2020
• This aim point is ideal whether a turkey is facing you, walking away, or broadside.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2023
• His remarks were a broadside aimed squarely at Donald Trump.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 May 2021
• The broadsides come amid a raft of new data that underscore why billionaires are such a ripe target.
  — Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• Soon another perky-eared elk is on her own, standing broadside, 237 yards—a quarter of a second—away.
  — Rachel Levin, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2022
• The title track is a rousing seven-and-a-half-minute broadside against neocolonialism in Niger.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2021
• Pashinyan’s broadside was the latest in a series of moves signaling Armenia’s shift away from Moscow and toward Washington.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023

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broadside

2 of 3 adjective

• As the Honda turned left, it was struck broadside by the Mustang, police said.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Right there, big as a horse, stood a tawny cow nilgai, broadside and oblivious at just 60 paces.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• Heims said motorcyclist failed to stop for a red light and ran broadside into the sedan.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• But suddenly the brush parted and there stood one of them, stopped and standing broadside just 60 yards away.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• For elk, pick a really tough bullet and if possible, pick broadside shots.
  — Joseph Von Benedikt, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• As the Honda turned left, it was struck broadside by the Mustang, police said.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Right there, big as a horse, stood a tawny cow nilgai, broadside and oblivious at just 60 paces.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• Heims said motorcyclist failed to stop for a red light and ran broadside into the sedan.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• But suddenly the brush parted and there stood one of them, stopped and standing broadside just 60 yards away.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• For elk, pick a really tough bullet and if possible, pick broadside shots.
  — Joseph Von Benedikt, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• As the Honda turned left, it was struck broadside by the Mustang, police said.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Right there, big as a horse, stood a tawny cow nilgai, broadside and oblivious at just 60 paces.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• Heims said motorcyclist failed to stop for a red light and ran broadside into the sedan.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• But suddenly the brush parted and there stood one of them, stopped and standing broadside just 60 yards away.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• For elk, pick a really tough bullet and if possible, pick broadside shots.
  — Joseph Von Benedikt, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• As the Honda turned left, it was struck broadside by the Mustang, police said.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• Right there, big as a horse, stood a tawny cow nilgai, broadside and oblivious at just 60 paces.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• Heims said motorcyclist failed to stop for a red light and ran broadside into the sedan.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• But suddenly the brush parted and there stood one of them, stopped and standing broadside just 60 yards away.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• For elk, pick a really tough bullet and if possible, pick broadside shots.
  — Joseph Von Benedikt, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023

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broadside

3 of 3 verb

• His car was broadsided by a truck as he was driving through the intersection.
• As the months have passed, one by one, Dershowitz’s broadsides against Boies and his allies have cratered.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• The deer was nearly broadside, quartering a half-step to her.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 5 Jan. 2021
• Later, Rinella would instruct me to only take a shot at a deer standing still, and broadside to me.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2020
• Rivera was like a captain approaching a storm, battening down the boat while planning to take the waves broadside.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• His car was broadsided by a 36-year-old Temecula man in a Jeep Wrangler headed east on the highway.
  — Luke Garrett, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2019
• The cause of the limp, a long-ago car accident that had killed his wife, he and she having been broadsided by a drunk driver, was no longer ever mentioned.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
• This is not a widow-maker that constantly threatens to swap ends and broadside the closest telephone pole.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 10 Sep. 2020
• The simulation ends when the driver goes through a stop sign while reading a text and gets broadsided by an oncoming car.
  — Mark Gomez, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2017
• Almost no one is expecting any extras, so what better time to broadside your customers with them?
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
• After the troops managed to open a hatch on the top of their vehicle, the rescue vehicle collided with it, sending it broadside into a wave.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
• Winds carried the flame front of the voracious fire eastward, putting it on target to broadside Heavenly Mountain Resort overnight.
  — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2021
• The Iranian economy has taken a beating since the start of the health crisis, crippled by U.S. sanctions and broadsided by plunging oil prices.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2020
• The impact pushed his little gray Civic into another lane, where it was broadsided by an SUV, killing our son instantly.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• That’s why Trump broadsides at the alliance as a whole, even if not specifically directed at the Poles, cause a distinct undercurrent of nervousness.
  — Laura King, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
• On Sunday morning, Fegan's car was reportedly trying to cross or merge onto Highway 82 when it was broadsided by the bus.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• Backlash broadsided the league in March after eight teams secured testing for coronavirus at a time of nationwide shortages.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• Then came the pandemic, followed fast by Mr. Xi’s broadside against the technology industry.
  — Shen Lu and Karen Hao, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• The police car was southbound on Michigan with its lights and sirens activated when a westbound Ford Explorer broadsided the car on its driver’s side, causing it to flip, police said.
  — Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 31 July 2019
• Many of them exited high school into a world short on middle-skill job opportunities, only to be broadsided by the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
  — Jeanna Smialek, The Seattle Times, 20 Nov. 2018
• Ordogne was southbound on Westmoreland Road on the way to a call when he was broadsided by a white Chevrolet Silverado coming across the intersection.
  — Mitch Mitchell, star-telegram.com, 3 June 2017
• Hawthorn was driving his family to Michigan when a truck broadsided the car, killing his wife and 4-year-old daughter and seriously injuring three older children.
  — Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 25 Feb. 2023
• This makes sense since the odds are that the car running the stop sign is likely to broadside another car that is already in the intersection or the street wherein the stop sign was preventing traffic from immediately flowing.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• In particular, vehicles do not have to cut directly in front of oncoming traffic to make a left turn, a maneuver that leads to broadside hits, one of the deadliest intersection crashes.
  — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 17 Jan. 2018
• Theoretically, the new operational domain means Super Cruise will work on the kinds of limited-access highways that have now seen two Tesla drivers killed when their cars broadsided tractor trailers at high speed.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
• The gathering ended with President Donald Trump broadsiding allies via Twitter, undermining the bloc and potentially causing fresh friction over trade.
  — Fortune, 11 June 2018
• His car was broadsided by a truck as he was driving through the intersection.
• As the months have passed, one by one, Dershowitz’s broadsides against Boies and his allies have cratered.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• The deer was nearly broadside, quartering a half-step to her.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 5 Jan. 2021
• Later, Rinella would instruct me to only take a shot at a deer standing still, and broadside to me.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2020

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