How to Use salvo in a Sentence

salvo

noun

• In the first salvo, each man gets the other in the arm.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
• In the first salvo, one rocket landed in a field in the Golan Heights.
  — Ilan Ben Zion, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2023
• Or is this just the opening salvo in a broader war on the rest of Ukraine?
  — NBC News, 23 Feb. 2022
• In the next salvo, at 20 paces apart, one is hit in the shoulder, another in the side.
  — Vulture, 25 Mar. 2023
• The board filed a legal salvo of its own against Disney in state court.
  — Douglas Soule, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• There’s been a new salvo launched in the battle over Château Miraval.
  — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 11 July 2023
• The custom keycaps are the first salvo in HyperX’s plans.
  — PCMAG, 4 Jan. 2023
• The attacks were the second-largest salvo since the allies first struck Houthi targets on Jan. 11.
  — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• The latest salvo comes in the form of a New York Times piece that has the family’s fingerprints all over it.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 22 Sep. 2023
• That was merely the opening salvo in an endgame process designed to push the contestants to their limits.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
• Crawford ended a Round 7 salvo of punches with a body shot that made Spence stiffen.
  — Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 30 July 2023
• The latest salvo is a new 22-word statement equating the global risk of AI to that of pandemics and nuclear war.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
• Less than a minute into the half, Guckian fired a salvo from the left side from 20 yards out that Morse goalie Carlos Renteria got a piece of but could not secure.
  — Rick Hoff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
• That month, the militants fired their first salvo: cruise missiles aimed at Israel.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• This blanketed an area of over four football fields per rocket, so a salvo of six would blanket half a square mile.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• As opponents feared at the time, the 2017 tax has proved the opening salvo in an attack on college endowments.
  — Burton G. Malkiel, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2022
• The officer runs from behind the police SUV to take cover while another salvo bursts in the background, the video shows.
  — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
• The scoring essentially came in three waves, and Cincinnati fired the opening salvo.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 30 June 2022
• Whether Zuckerberg’s return salvo will land with consumers remains to be seen.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
• Every account of the judicial confirmation wars reads like the War of the Roses, with each side claiming that the other side launched the first salvo.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
• When his phone rang the next morning, the columnist expected another salvo from the mayor.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• The split screen served as the opening salvo of the general election after Trump clinched the nomination this week when Nikki Haley dropped out of the race.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
• Coinbase’s lawyer told Fortune that, even if the court sides with the SEC, this lawsuit is just an opening salvo that will give it standing to sue over broader issues.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 Apr. 2023
• Richarlison was one of a handful of players whose connection with those fans also played a key role in this late-season salvo.
  — James Nalton, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• The latest official salvo has come from the U.S. That further raises the already long odds of a quick delisting and relisting elsewhere.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 4 May 2022
• But this incident is simply the opening salvo of a decades-long struggle between the village and the company.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
• That public posturing was only the latest salvo launched between the two men.
  — Justin Gomez, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2023
• Her decision is a poignant nod to climate change, but it could also be glossed as a salvo against a controlling parent.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Donahoe’s strong endorsement of coming into the office is the latest salvo in the debate over the future of work.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024
• The latest salvo against Visa credit cards is part of a bigger battle to revamp online payments.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 18 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024