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Meanings of volley in English
Catalan
volea 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
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.
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 volley in English
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.
6
Did the final season's first volley raise more questions than it answered?
7
Pouring in a volley, the first British line charged with the bayonet.
8
Thus the natural attack will become a drive and not a volley.
9
General Herkimer and others were wounded by a volley from the savages.
10
The reply was a volley from the forts which commanded the river.
11
Teenager Doran showed maturity by putting his natural serve-volley game on hold.
12
His low volley is the weak spot in an otherwise great game.
13
A volley ripped out of the night and thundered down the Pass.
14
Marching forward, he launched a volley of explosive projectiles toward individual homes.
15
Through the open doorway comes Spencer's name, and a volley of applause.
16
The royalist troops on the bridge fired one volley and then turned.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Volley through the time
Volley across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common