How to Use fusillade in a Sentence

fusillade

noun

• A fusillade of bullets filled the courtyard.
• 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
• 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
• The brothers died in a fusillade of bullets fired at their car near the 1600 block of Julie Street in Marrero.
  — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 7 June 2017
• The planned 17-minute display became a startling, fiery fusillade of less than a minute.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2023
• 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
• More than 30 people were injured in the fusillade of bullets.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
• 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 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
• 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
• Because that’s the only way to stop the fusillade of interruptions from Trump.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 Sep. 2020
• The sound is like a fusillade of manual typewriters, or a hailstorm on a tin roof.
  — David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• Tristesse et pensées pour celles et ceux qui sont tombés à Pittsburgh lors de la fusillade.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Syria has twice been on the receiving end of a fusillade of missiles for crossing red lines.
  — Hugh Hewitt, Twin Cities, 5 June 2019
• The hobbled quarterback can’t find a rhythm, and struggles to escape the fusillade of pass rushers on his one good leg.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Yet Trump’s multiyear fake-news fusillade against CNN has paid off.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• 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
• An archerfish can squirt water in a single shot or in a machine gun–like fusillade.
  — Jonathan Balcombe, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• For a passage of frenzied mayhem, Mr. Gilbert came up with the idea of having the players toss paper fusillades at him.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 31 May 2017
• The fusillade killed two, wounded dozens and left 65 bullet holes on the plaster wall behind Kelley.
  — Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2022
• 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 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
• In the California case, body cameras captured the moment when Clark was cut down by a fusillade of 20 shots.
  — NBC News, 5 Apr. 2018
• The fusillade caused the gunpowder aboard the San José to ignite, turning the ship, and its precious cargo, into a fiery ruin.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2018
• The book opens with a fusillade of keen, musical poems about Kotzin's facedown with cancer.
  — Philly.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• One pattern has emerged in the fusillade of lawsuits: a frenzied search for a sympathetic judge.
  — Ian MacDougall, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2020
• In a siege that lasted 10 days, the Japanese fired mortars and large artillery ahead of banzai charges by fearless soldiers willing to run into fusillades from the Americans’ Browning machine guns.
  — Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• In June, the downtown office of Paul López, the Denver clerk and recorder, was attacked overnight with a fusillade of bullets, pockmarking the building’s facade and a ballot drop box and bursting through a window into an office cubicle.
  — Michael Wines, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024