fusillade

Chinese officials directed a rhetorical fusillade at Ms. Takaichi, and have ratcheted up economic pressure by discouraging Chinese tourism to Japan and restricting rare-earth mineral exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

An Israeli fusillade around noon Sunday and in the afternoon saw four areas in Tehran targeted, including major commercial thoroughfares, according to state media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2025

This fusillade of explosions in quick succession produces a powerful galactic wind blowing gas out of the galaxy.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024

With protesters in Lima facing a nearly daily fusillade of tear gas, more people have joined the ranks of deactivators trying to shield them and keep the demonstrations going.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2023

This soon became clear when a platoon of otters on the ramparts unloosed a rattling fusillade of heavy pebbles.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

In the evening and night the latter showed special activity, star rockets and other fireworks being used to illumine the opposing positions, which were heavily fusilladed.

From World's War Events, Vol. I by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

We saw and fusilladed the Pom-poms through this smoke at 10,000 yards with the 4.7's, and at 5 p.m. we had the whole ground in our possession.

From With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service by Burne, C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate)

Accordingly alongside of these bonfires of Church balustrades, and sounds of fusillading and noyading, there rise quite another sort of fires and sounds: Smithy-fires and Proof-volleys for the manufacture of arms.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

I was so appalled by their stories and by the incessant cannonading and fusillading that one evening I attempted to go down into a cellar and stay there.

From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth