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enfilade
noun as in barrage
noun as in gunfire
Weak match
noun as in volley
Example Sentences
Traveling there, Ireland photographed enfiladed rooms in knotty pine, and glass-front built-ins abandoned to a lone rifle and scant rows of books.
Brodsky, future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived in a single room that had been part of a palatial enfilade.
But the rules weren’t that obtrusive — if you can handle a supermarket aisle in these bad new days, you can handle an enfilade of galleries.
The towers, rounded to deflect incoming boulders, will project outward — the better to hit illegal immigrants with enfilading fire from crossbows.
They had flanked us with ease—they fired upon us from the side—and we, enfiladed, fled—hearing cries as men fell behind us.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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