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 Bairnsfather, Bruce

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

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

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

The next and still more improved form of work is the bastioned fort, which consists of projecting bastions at the corners, the fire from which enfilades the ditches.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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

South, and on higher ground, was a redan,—a strong work with two guns, which enfiladed the ravine.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

These provided flanking fire along the front; they also afforded refuges for the garrison in case of a successful escalade, and from them the platform could be enfiladed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

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

Rifle pits are being dug completely around it, enfilading all the principal streets of the town.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd

They had exposed themselves to the enfilading fire of the guns on the western slope of Cemetery Hill; that exposure sealed their fate.

From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Glazier, Willard W.

The opportunities offered by the ground for enfilading the enemy's lines were fully utilized, and did much to secure the success of our attack.

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

Still stronger than these were the traverses, which prevented an enfilading fire.

From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous