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Meanings of salvo in English
Synonyms
Examples for "burst"
Examples for "burst"
1
The power from that sea burst, over there, must still be strong.
2
Sergio Garcia burst onto the professional scene just over a year ago.
3
Nora burst out laughing; and in the midst of her mirthfulness exclaimed:
4
Of course I burst into tears, I couldn't even say yes properly!
5
Now it unfolded; it burst its bounds; it was a rhythmic stampede.
1
Five successive points later, Agassi takes the game with a simple volley.
2
The answer came back in the shape of a volley of cusses.
3
His first time volley flew past Robles, and suddenly the game changed.
4
The boys may have been killed in the volley that struck me.
5
Tsonga continues with some serve and volley and it seems to work.
1
Ali gave the signal by a pistol-shot, and a general fusillade followed.
2
There had been the one sharp fusillade and the fight was over.
3
Guns and hunters were everywhere, and the mountains resounded with the fusillade.
4
Tucker sent a fusillade of automatic fire across them, the noise thunderous.
5
There was a scattering fusillade of applause as the tall conductor appeared.
Usage of salvo in English
1
In a final salvo, they said: Attitudes towards gay people have changed.
2
Labour has fired the opening salvo this week in the referendum campaign.
3
A second salvo, of equal size, was curving round the south pole.
4
This is the opening salvo in an orchestrated legal and power offensive.
5
Various options for combat wasp salvo attack formations skipped through her mind.
6
From the opening dialled-up funk salvo of Music: Response I was hooked.
7
The Covenant weapons heated and squeezed out a second salvo of plasma.
8
But there were regular intervals between the firing; it was a salvo.
9
A terrible salvo burst from the 16-inch guns in the forward turret.
10
Several hours later, President Trump hit back with an early-morning Twitter salvo.
11
They accused him of firing the first salvo in a class war.
12
Someone behind the planet had launched a salvo of fifty-five combat wasps.
13
The salvo comes ahead of Gordon Brown's own fairness-themed relaunch this autumn.
14
And only few could be kept in action after the initial salvo.
15
Nintendo has just fired the latest salvo in the portable gaming wars.
16
Frigates, battleships, and voidhawks fired a salvo of twenty-five combat wasps each.
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Salvo through the time
Salvo across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common