enfilade

Brodsky, future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived in a single room that had been part of a palatial enfilade.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

Others are escort sprints where you have to guide a vulnerable ally through enfilade fire.

From Time ● Aug. 28, 2017

Anybody in the enfilade of dove gray salons, where Christian Dior himself once trod, could feel the hand of history.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2010

Wright put a winter garden on one of the terraces, which, he explains, “made a space for entertaining in an enfilade with the breakfast room and the elliptical dining room.”

From Architectural Digest ● Dec. 21, 2009

Up ahead, the plesiosaur riders were probably readying their artillery, or simply loading their muskets to enfilade them as soon as they were in range.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

"It's not much of a place for it," he said; "where we ought to have it is to the right of the sap, so that it enfilades the whole front of that trench."

From Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather

The trench enfilades the valley beyond, and the valley is covered with barbed-wire and gun-pits.

From With the French in France and Salonika by Richard Harding Davis

The salient shuts in the end of the valley and enfilades it.

From Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 by John Masefield

So necessity, the mother of invention, suggested to him a formation which poured something like two crossing enfilades into the head of the cavalry column.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

Everything is jumbled under this terrible fire which enfilades from all sides.

From Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Traveling there, Ireland photographed enfiladed rooms in knotty pine, and glass-front built-ins abandoned to a lone rifle and scant rows of books.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

"They’re simple and not enfiladed, so the progression from one to another never feels monotonous. You always pass through a connective space with natural light."

From Architectural Digest ● Sep. 9, 2014

The next charge struck die angle at the boulder, at the colors, lapped around it, ran into the new line, was enfiladed, collapsed.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

At the Place des Fêtes two of our pieces enfiladed the Rue de Crimée and protected our right flank.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

Unhappily, their unit, the Rifle Brigade, was enfiladed and forced to fall back on its old lines.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by James Edward Parrott

Batteries of German cannon and machine guns, perched on the cliffs and hidden in caves, could turn an enfilading fire on the beaches, which bristled with barbed wire.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first half of his sentry-goes passed quickly enough, but the second dragged a bit, his thoughts being exhausted, and those beastly whirling enfilading bullets seeming to come more frequently.

From The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie

On the way we passed many small trenches and sniping pits evidently made for enfilading fire.

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

From this spot Tibetan riflemen were enfilading our troops held in reserve.

From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler

The forts were connected by a curtain of rifle-pits containing a re-entrant angle, thus providing for a reciprocal enfilading fire in case either was attacked.

From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas) Wilson