Sample Sentences for
salvo
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(editor-reviewed)

salvo as in:  a salvo from the guns

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The battleship fired salvo after salvo into the hills above the beach.
salvo = discharge from weapons
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    Two smaller aircraft line the corridor with smoke, and the lead bomber salvos its payload, and eleven others follow suit.  (source)
    salvos = empties its bomb rack
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    The next salvo set Blitzen's parachute on fire.†  (source)
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    Almost every day a salvo of shots would send the anguished whispers flying: How many this time?†  (source)
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    And with that, Jake delivered the first salvo.†  (source)
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    There were fires glowing all up and down Betio, and a man beside him with a waterproof watch was attempting to time the battleship salvos being fired on the island.†  (source)
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    The first time is a glide-I target my ninth birthday party and hit it with the first salvo.†  (source)
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    The bright melody drowned The salvos from the ghetto wall, And couples were flying High in the cloudless sky.†  (source)
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    He went to the door of the inner room, through which Brogard and his wife had disappeared before, and knocked; as usual, he was answered by a salvo of muttered oaths.†  (source)
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    They fired three salvos above his grave.†  (source)
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    Most targets we managed to hit by second salvo though all were defended except Mexico City.†  (source)
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    It has been calculated that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and citadels, sunrises and sunsets, saluted every day by all fortresses and all ships of war, openings and closings of ports, etc., the civilized world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty hours, one hundred and fifty thousand useless shots.†  (source)
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    The rest were shot down by another salvo.†  (source)
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    The weather was breaking up, breaking, broken, and it is a sense of the fit rather than of the supernatural that equips such crises with the salvos of angelic artillery.†  (source)
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salvo as in:  a verbal salvo

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The attack ads represent the opening salvo of an especially bitter fight anticipated this campaign season.
salvo = forceful verbal attack
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    Lauren was about to unload a return salvo when Susie appeared behind Chuck.  (source)
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    "Are you out of your mind?" was her opening salvo.  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    "I am happy to meet you, Nya," he said "My name is Salvo"  (source)
    Salvo = a name in this novel
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    Salvo!  (source)
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