How to Use broadside in a Sentence

broadside

1 of 3 noun

• The bull slewed around broadside, and a shot through the lungs put it down.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2025
• This produces a bright radar echo called a broadside flash, which is easy to home in on.
  — Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2020
• The sow stood about 20 yards away on all fours, broadside to me with her head down.
  — William D. Brown, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2025
• Wilkins also launched a broadside over ads that have run on the subject.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2022
• The angle needn’t be sharp—just a step or two beyond broadside is fine.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
• He was hit broadside by a truck, putting him in the hospital for over a year.
  — Mykal McEldowney, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2022
• The six-point bull turned broadside, and Teig pulled his arrow back.
  — Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
• The moose moved even closer and turned broadside, maybe 10 feet in front of me.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2022
• The doe, standing broadside, stepped behind a spruce branch.
  — Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
• The second shot made contact, and when the ram stopped broadside, a third put him down.
  — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 12 Nov. 2025
• That car was then struck broadside by a Toyota pickup truck and caught fire.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 25 Dec. 2019
• An oncoming car hit the car broadside, killing his brother at the scene.
  — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 13 June 2021
• In fact, Ryan started his broadside on some of these very themes with an ad right out of the gate.
  — Cliff Schecter, The New Republic, 4 May 2022
• Poppert was hit broadside by a semi-truck and pushed north, police said.
  — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2021
• The buck was walking from right to left, but stopped broadside in the clearing just long enough for a clean shot.
  — Outdoor Life, 5 Jan. 2021
• This aim point is ideal whether a turkey is facing you, walking away, or broadside.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2023
• The head came up broadside, facing to Bill’s left, and Bill sought the bear’s ear with the crosshairs.
  — Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
• Swept into a wall of trees, the heavily laden canoe went broadside to the river, then heeled over with a jerk.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 5 June 2020
• When the guild negotiations happen this year, these broadsides will be just the first shots.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
• Republicans have hinted for months at two prongs of the three-sided broadside.
  — Thomas Beaumont, ajc, 2 Mar. 2022
• The broadsides come amid a raft of new data that underscore why billionaires are such a ripe target.
  — Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
• Finally, the deer turned broadside 28 yards away, and Cramer let an arrow fly.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 8 Dec. 2020
• Two of the crocs were already awake and moving toward the water, but the big one was still fast asleep, almost straight broadside to me.
  — Warren Page, Field & Stream, 13 Nov. 2020
• The monster buck walked to within 20 yards, and turned perfectly broadside.
  — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. 2020
• The group continued appealing to voters with the broadsides of the culture war.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The broadside against the prime minister’s spouse has been the talk of the Westminster bubble these past days.
  — Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2022
• But the Democrat's blue collar campaign sometimes sounds like a broadside against his own party.
  — Jill Colvin, ajc, 28 Oct. 2022
• But the Democrat’s blue collar campaign sometimes sounds like a broadside against his own party.
  — Jill Colvin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• Bucks will almost always come to the front of the decoy, and that gives you a better chance to take a broadside or quartering away shot at the deer.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 10 Dec. 2019
• While a frontal or quartering-to shot can be deadly, the target is much smaller than a broadside or quartering-away shot.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 3 Jan. 2023

broadside

2 of 3 adjective

• The deer slows, turns broadside, wobbles a bit, then falls dead.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2024
• At about 147 yards, the buck stopped and turned broadside and gave me a shot.
  — Bryan Hendricks, arkansasonline.com, 3 Dec. 2023
• The buck stepped out of the thicket and offered him a broadside shot at 12 yards.
  — Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2023
• Heims said motorcyclist failed to stop for a red light and ran broadside into the sedan.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2023
• But this is far more than daydreaming about a giant buck turning broadside.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Oct. 2023
• But the tan-and-white giant was running broadside to me, and his route lay over open ground laced with rocks and caribou moss.
  — Jim Tappan, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2025
• Right there, big as a horse, stood a tawny cow nilgai, broadside and oblivious at just 60 paces.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• Reichert took the shot when the buck turned broadside and after a short wait, the hunter was gripping the antlers of a true giant.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 1 Nov. 2023
• For elk, pick a really tough bullet and if possible, pick broadside shots.
  — Joseph Von Benedikt, Field & Stream, 3 Aug. 2023
• As the Honda turned left, it was struck broadside by the Mustang, police said.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
• But suddenly the brush parted and there stood one of them, stopped and standing broadside just 60 yards away.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
• There’s often not an opportunity for a perfect broadside shot in the woods.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 28 Nov. 2024
• In one instance, Wallace witnessed a crash when a car cut over the divider in front of a semi, which hit it broadside.
  — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2024
• The buck was standing perfectly broadside at 21 yards when Milton released his arrow.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
• The bull didn’t flinch and continued walking away, eventually turning broadside at 300 yards.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 11 Jan. 2024
• The second is a dipole, which is parallel to the ground with broadside pattern – creating a signal that fills the blind spot of conventional antennas.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2020
• There were strong gusts at Michigan on Monday, and if LaJoie’s car — already at full speed — suddenly turned broadside into heavier-than-normal wind, could that help his car lift off?
  — Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024

broadside

3 of 3 verb

• His car was broadsided by a truck as he was driving through the intersection.
• The deer was nearly broadside, quartering a half-step to her.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 5 Jan. 2021
• As the months have passed, one by one, Dershowitz’s broadsides against Boies and his allies have cratered.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
• Seven cyclists were also injured in that time — most of them broadsided.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026
• Almost no one is expecting any extras, so what better time to broadside your customers with them?
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 29 June 2022
• Rivera was like a captain approaching a storm, battening down the boat while planning to take the waves broadside.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• Later, Rinella would instruct me to only take a shot at a deer standing still, and broadside to me.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2020
• This is not a widow-maker that constantly threatens to swap ends and broadside the closest telephone pole.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 10 Sep. 2020
• The simulation ends when the driver goes through a stop sign while reading a text and gets broadsided by an oncoming car.
  — Mark Gomez, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2017
• The cause of the limp, a long-ago car accident that had killed his wife, he and she having been broadsided by a drunk driver, was no longer ever mentioned.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
• After the troops managed to open a hatch on the top of their vehicle, the rescue vehicle collided with it, sending it broadside into a wave.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
• His car was broadsided by a 36-year-old Temecula man in a Jeep Wrangler headed east on the highway.
  — Luke Garrett, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2019
• Winds carried the flame front of the voracious fire eastward, putting it on target to broadside Heavenly Mountain Resort overnight.
  — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Sep. 2021
• The impact pushed his little gray Civic into another lane, where it was broadsided by an SUV, killing our son instantly.
  — Chris Erskine, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• That’s why Trump broadsides at the alliance as a whole, even if not specifically directed at the Poles, cause a distinct undercurrent of nervousness.
  — Laura King, latimes.com, 9 July 2018
• Hawthorn was driving his family to Michigan when a truck broadsided the car, killing his wife and 4-year-old daughter and seriously injuring three older children.
  — Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, 25 Feb. 2023
• Many of them exited high school into a world short on middle-skill job opportunities, only to be broadsided by the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
  — Jeanna Smialek, The Seattle Times, 20 Nov. 2018
• On Sunday morning, Fegan's car was reportedly trying to cross or merge onto Highway 82 when it was broadsided by the bus.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• In particular, vehicles do not have to cut directly in front of oncoming traffic to make a left turn, a maneuver that leads to broadside hits, one of the deadliest intersection crashes.
  — Tony Bizjak, sacbee, 17 Jan. 2018
• This makes sense since the odds are that the car running the stop sign is likely to broadside another car that is already in the intersection or the street wherein the stop sign was preventing traffic from immediately flowing.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Ordogne was southbound on Westmoreland Road on the way to a call when he was broadsided by a white Chevrolet Silverado coming across the intersection.
  — Mitch Mitchell, star-telegram.com, 3 June 2017
• Officers said a silver Toyota sedan was driving south on Byrnes Road when it was broadsided by a silver Dodge pickup truck heading east on Hawkins Road.
  — Brandon Downs, CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
• Cervantes’s vehicle was broadsided at 14th and S streets in the May 2025 collision, Sacramento police said.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
• Theoretically, the new operational domain means Super Cruise will work on the kinds of limited-access highways that have now seen two Tesla drivers killed when their cars broadsided tractor trailers at high speed.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 June 2019
• The pursuit ended when the driver sped through the intersection of Arlington Avenue and West 48th Street in Hyde Park and was broadsided by another car, sending the suspects’ vehicle spinning out of control.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
• Lorena Lopez, 33, was driving north on Wichita Road when a man ran a stop sign at Zuni Road and broadsided her in the intersection, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
• The initial investigation indicates that the driver of a 2011 Toyota Tundra ran a red light and broadsided a 2015 Lexus CT200 SB, which was heading through the intersection on a green light, Poorsaleh said.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
• The initial investigation indicated that a 2011 Toyota Tundra went through a red light and broadsided a 2015 Lexus CT200 SB that was heading through the intersection on a green light, Police Sgt.
  — La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026