enfilade

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of enfilade Tumbling forward under enfilading fire to ALEPPO Pte. Ishion Hutchinson, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023 Bodies were disfigured by thundering artillery bombardments and the scythe-like enfilade fire from machine guns. David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020 At regimental headquarters, the general received reports of bad sniping and enfilading machine gun fire from the forward units. Washington Post, 29 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enfilade
Verb
  • Mace cites allegations that McIver assaulted federal law enforcement officers and unlawfully interfered with operations at a federal immigration detention facility in Newark.
    Dan Gooding Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
  • Super Bowl winner Ray Rice and Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt both assaulted women in the past, as well.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 21 May 2025
Verb
  • An adult son had attacked his mother with a machete and ran to a nearby house, according to police.
    Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2025
  • While in federal prison, according to the Bureau of Prisons, Stroud attacked another inmate, resulting in his transfer to USP Leavenworth.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 10 May 2025
Verb
  • Democrats assailed the budget as a devastating foreshadowing of Trump's vision for the country.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2025
  • In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul assailed ICE for arresting a mother and her three children, from the village of Sackets Harbor, and sending them to a Texas detention center.
    Jack Herrera, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Prosecutors say Read deliberately hit O’Keefe, 46, outside the home a fellow cop and left him for dead in a drunken rage.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 14 May 2025
  • With the bases now empty, Zach McKinstry restarted the rally with a single, Dillon Dingler was hit by a pitch and Trey Sweeney blew the game open with a three-run home run.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • Multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that ravages bone, leaving distinctive holes in its wake.
    David Armstrong, CNN Money, 10 May 2025
  • The bear trio ravaged through Beloin's garbage can The bear trio also became fascinated with, or something within, Beloin's garbage can.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 2 May 2025

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“Enfilade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enfilade. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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