enfilade

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of enfilade Hood directed artillery fire under enfilading machine-gun fire. Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 12 June 2025 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
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Verb
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    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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    Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 31 July 2025
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    STACIE E. GODDARD, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2025
Verb
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    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
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Verb
  • Sanders is the latest in a long line of injuries that have ravaged Cleveland's QB room.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Enfilade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enfilade. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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