(v. t.) To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trying to escape, speaker Mohammed Magariaf's jeep was hit by a fusillade of machine-gun fire.
(2) Fusillades of incensed Times columnists from Finkelstein to Parris have the freedom to write what they believe.
(3) Perhaps the commission of inquiry into the massacre will provide some of the answers as to what prompted the collision of circumstances that led to the now unforgettable images of mineworkers falling into the dust in a fusillade from a wall of heavily armed policemen.
(4) Born in Belgium but now based in Amsterdam, Van Hove talks English at machine-gun pace, words and ideas rat-a-tat-tatting out in a fusillade of enthusiastic emphases.
(5) But if a fusillade of Tweets can make a mockery of the majesty of the law, don't we need fresh international agreements to bring some majesty back?
(6) Yet, to judge by his recent rant in the Daily Mail against "Marxist" professors, his head-butting with the unions and his condescension on Question Time to the shadow attorney general, he clearly revels in letting off fusillades against anyone who disagrees with him on education.
(7) Israel’s defence minister is out , departing not with the polite exchange of letters that would be Westminster custom but a fusillade aimed directly at his former boss.
(8) I wanted [to write] a book, like Jilly Cooper’s Riders , that ‘told all the secrets’ of sex to teenage girls in an as amusing way as possible,” Moran writes when I email her, her enthusiasm for the subject resulting in fusillades of capital letters.
(9) By last year, the fusillade of roles had become unignorable: Bernie , Killer Joe , Mud , Dallas Buyers Club, The Wolf of Wall Street , which he stole with a piece of improv designed to get him into character.
(10) More smartphone cameras appeared, thousands of them, firing one last fusillade at the flag during its final hour.
(11) Georges Salines (@GeorgesSalines) Je cherche des nouvelles de ma fille #LolaSalines qui était au #Bataclan pendant la #fusillade .
(12) Any sign of life is greeted by a fusillade of flashes and such erudite questions as "When are you going to say sorry?"
(13) Mr Taleb, the financier and bestselling author, fired off a fusillade of opinions at odds with the touchy-feely Conservatism espoused by his discussant.
(14) These fusillades of self-criticism, you sense, aren't false modesty, nor real terror, but something else: the musings of a veteran who has long since come to terms with the fact that his creative process will always be a long slide into disillusionment.
(15) First came a fusillade from Lieutenant Commander Kris Ward, delivered as the prime minister visited the armed forces operations headquarters in London.
(16) it asserts – and a veritable fusillade of toffees.
(17) Another fusillade of giggles filled the silence as I started again.
Simultaneous
Definition:
(a.) Existing, happening, or done, at the same time; as, simultaneous events.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(3) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(4) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(5) These patients had undergone selective and bilateral simultaneous IPS sampling for diagnostic purposes or for neurosurgical indications.
(6) Inhibition of thymidine uptake is attributed to an observed decrease in thymidine kinase activity caused by growth in 1 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP, and possibly to a simultaneous alteration in membrane permeability.
(7) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(8) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(9) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
(10) The addition of a cerebral blood volume (CBV) compartment in the [18F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) model produces estimates of local CBV simultaneously with glucose metabolic rates when kinetic FDG studies are performed.
(11) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
(12) Using a monoclonal antibody against dopamine and a rabbit antiserum against serotonin, 5-methoxytryptamine or tryptamine, we were able to achieve the simultaneous localization of two amines in glutaraldehyde-fixed sections of rat dorsal raphe nuclei.
(13) Acute effects of insulin on protein metabolism (whole body and forearm muscle) were simultaneously assessed using doubly labelled (13C15N) leucine in post-absorptive Type I diabetic patients.
(14) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
(15) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(16) Simultaneously, mean arterial blood pressure (MABP), PaCO2, PaO2, and hematocrit were recorded.
(17) Spontaneous lipid peroxidation in washed human spermatozoa was induced by aerobic incubation at 32 C and measured by malonaldehyde production; loss of motility during the incubation was determined simultaneously.
(18) The cardiorespiratory effects of trichloroethylene supplementation of nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia, with simultaneous use of halothane at induction as needed, were studied in outpatient oral surgery patients undergoing dental extractions under general anesthesia.
(19) Three cases of simultaneous atrial and a-v junctional tachycardia, related to the administration of digitalis and occurring in a short period of 16 months, are reported.
(20) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.