fusillade

Example Sentences

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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

In the unprecedented wind-driven fires of January, a fusillade of embers flew from burning hillside brush to neighborhoods, igniting houses and any fencing and furniture around them that would burn.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2025

A fusillade of calcium batteries and white plastic bags drifted above the landscape along with birds and the final image was a dove soaring above the desolation.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023

This mystified the crowd enough to stop the fusillade.

From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022

But Kathy let loose a fusillade of pungent suggestions, leaving them dumbfounded and momentarily speechless.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers