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How to use fusillade in a sentence

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The match itself started 10 minutes late because of the terrible fusillade of fireworks and even military smoke shells.
A deadly fusillade of slaved ACP missiles raced out at the Destroyer's bridge tower.
Third, other witnesses agreed that the fusillade began almost immediately after the first few shots.
On arrival they were met by a fusillade of fire from the top of the arch, bombs being thrown down on the military vehicles.
He effectively followed up with his fusillade of punches to prompt the stoppage.
He feathers the stage with his tap-dancing, which is of the light-footed fusillade school.
The column triggered a fusillade that recalled the sulfurous exchanges between Joseph Pulitzer and his contemporaries in an earlier era.
The fusillade to protect his retreat began and as he went, keeping low, he dragged with him the spool of wire to be connected to the detonator.
Seven of the Sioux were executed in the ensuing fusillade, and one badly wounded man managed to get away by hiding in the underbrush.
Reports indicate that she made a valiant attempt to escape the fusillade of bullets but was chased and shot anyway.
Given that context, his recent fusillade of fulmination must have been nothing more than friendly fire.
A fusillade of cruise missiles had been launched from four US cruisers and a submarine, and a supporting British sub.
The search was wrapped up, and soldiers jumped back into the vehicles-buttoning up for an expected fusillade of rocks, if not gunfire, as they left.
Another fusillade of shots clipped nets and thumped into wood.
It has launched a fusillade of trade sanctions to press the case for its rival outfit, the Eurasian Economic Union.
But the thrust of this series is to unleash a fusillade of jokes, some of which are rattled off so fast that multiple viewings are required to pick them out.
They can expect a fusillade of incoming from Gillibrand and her colleagues.
Innkeepers think the bans themselves are illegal, and have fired a fusillade of legal challenges.
And here comes the princess now, stepping from her limousine, flanked by musclemen, caught in a fusillade of clicking cameras.
Saying, 'My company commander will want me', he returned through a fusillade of sniper fire, crawling much of the way from shell hole to shell hole with snipers firing at him every time he exposed himself.
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They, too, fled before the fusillade and the hail of shot that descended on them.
The fusillade from the Petrel was evidently interfering with the enemy's marksmanship.
A fusillade of shots and a babel of yelling from outside interrupted his words.
Then I heard the very crackling of the wood, like a fusillade from a great distance.
For a sudden fusillade had opened on that side, and the chips were flying wildly from the mopani poles.
But the fusillade had begun afresh, this time on the left, in the olive plantations.
The fusillade below stopped short, as I had foreseen it would when the squirts got empty.
Through this fusillade the army came down to the west fork of the Shenandoah.
The net result of his fusillade of interrogatories, however, was exceedingly meagre.
The Swiss Guard stood firm, and, possibly by accident, a fusillade began.
Out I went in a fusillade of courtesies and sought a chauffeur.
With mad cries and a fusillade of shots, the bandits charged.
Down went the Galu and Kro-lu warriors like tenpins before that deadly fusillade.
By the time he reached the cordon a violent fusillade was in progress.
He followed with a fusillade of questions in strange and varying tongues.
But he had scarcely turned his head when a fusillade burst out.
I was even afraid that that last fusillade I had heard might mean the extermination of our invaders from Mars.
At that part of the circle closest to the Waziri, a constant fusillade of shots was poured into the bushes behind which the black warriors had concealed themselves.
Our warriors then rushed up to the roofs of the buildings which we occupied and followed the retreating armada with a continuous fusillade of deadly fire.
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