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broadside

[brawd-sahyd] / ˈbrɔdˌsaɪd /




NOUN
fusillade
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His broadside ended with the never-to-be-forgotten quote: "I will love it if we beat them. Love it."

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Days before filing his lawsuit, Sun issued a lengthy broadside against WLF on X, labeling the firm “World Tyranny” Financial.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 28, 2026

Congress sent him a Dunlap broadside shortly after its publication.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

If he finds it to his benefit to launch another broadside against Petro, he won’t hesitate to do it.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2026

The boat pitched and rolled wildly as waves smashed into it broadside.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Meanwhile, here was a drama about humans living in a galaxy far, far away, broadsided by an enemy they didn’t take seriously enough.

From Salon May 5, 2026

Gragson slammed into the outside wall and then got spun helicopter style when broadsided by Landon Cassill.

From Seattle Times Aug. 26, 2022

“Yeah,” Mr. Macron mumbled, before being broadsided by a bunch of other questions.

From New York Times Jun. 20, 2022

When she was 16 and “a car broadsided me while I was on my bike,” her injuries were “really, really painful.”

From Washington Post Jan. 19, 2022

From the earliest moment that the dew would permit operations until the stooks stood eerie and indistinct in the thickening dusk the boys broadsided their two binders into the ranks of the standing grain.

From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead

It slid off the end of the runway, broadsiding a steel tower that held landing lights.

From Time Magazine Archive

They blew past two of the plesios, Missy clobbering one with her tail and broadsiding the other, sending it and its riders collapsing into the water.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Around and around she veered, broadsiding with astonishing accuracy, and knocking the spars about like a foot-ball team kicking a ball.

From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston

There ensue five days of intricate sea-work; not much of broadsiding, mainly tugging out of sunk War-Ships, and the like, to get alongside of Castle Grand, which is the chief obstruction.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

All he asked of anybody, by God! was to be let alone, though this broadsiding of defenseless people made him sick at the stummick, it did.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne




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