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

The guns to the right, on the Rocky Hill, would enfilade the line.

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

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 Davis, Richard Harding

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

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

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 Reed, John Calvin

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

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

"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 Bairnsfather, Bruce

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

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 Parrott, James Edward

Their rifle fire stretched from the extremities of either flank and enfiladed the interior trenches of the kopje.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus

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 enfilading line is broken, and through its riven ranks the camp animals sweep as a hurricane.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne

The Gunners, as usual, behaved with the utmost gallantry, but they too came under the same enfilading fire as the Dorsets and every man of the detachment except Captain Boscawen fell either killed or wounded.

From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest W.

Shortly after the monitors and the bow guns of the fleet began firing, the enemy's gunboats and the Tennessee moved out from behind Morgan and took their position enfilading the channel.

From Admiral Farragut by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

The batteries from our side were playing from a hill on the east side of Antler's Run, pouring a galling enfilading fire into the rebel Une.

From Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson And Twenty Great Battles by McElroy, John