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Definition of salvo:

  • (noun) an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs
  • (noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms;
  • (noun) a sudden outburst of cheers; "there was a salvo of approval"

Sentence Examples:

Salvos of artillery mingled with the applause.

The audience acclaimed his decision with salvos of applause.

How majestic their salvos billowing across the heavens!

It quickens them in order to avoid a second salvo.

This impudent harangue was hailed by a salvo of applause.

I can still hear the rip of that imperious salvo.

Those that survived the salvo were requisitioned as grave diggers.

Another salvo and both halves of the gate were splintered.

A roar was heard followed by a salvo of blue profanity.

Mulligan broke it with salvos of scientific and finished profanity.

There seemed to be a salvo of shrill whoops and deeper hurrahs.

Carter stretched and yawned, a signal for a salvo of yawns.

They reloaded and repeated their first salvo, with no better results.

Instantly he seized the chance and ordered a salvo from starboard.

The panting, weary crimson-legged players trotted in amid a salvo of applause.

Suddenly a salvo of shells came over and one burst perilously near us.

Nerves are palsied, then fly from control under unremitting blasting salvos.

As a hypocritical salvo the name of Judge Peters was joined with his.

It had a fine effect, like a peal of thunder or a salvo of artillery.

Again and again salvos of "coal boxes" fell in succession along the parapet.

No more inquisitive cruisers ready to let fly a salvo at anything that stirs.

In the center of this he gave tongue, with a salvo of thunderous barks.

The puffs of smoke he blew toward the porthole were like salvos of shrapnel.

Our warships aimed a few salvos on to the enemy's position, then drew off.

This tickled the cowboys and brought salvos of shots and shouts of laughter.

In an instant a company would be enveloped in the smoke of a shrapnel salvo.

As a gratifying corollary was the knowledge that the salvo had fallen short.

As the sound of the last salvo died away the Viceroy addressed the assemblage.

Then, as our ships' guns sent another salvo, we too exclaimed, "Serve 'em right."

A salvo from the truck-mounted rockets was a welcome prelude to any Marine attack.

He fired a warning salvo and tucked his defensive screens in tight around him.

The remainder of the nuptial service was then performed amid perpetual salvos of artillery.

They were received with salvos of artillery and military music from the fortified abbey.

And on this day a grand salvo announced to the besieged the victory of Sedan.

I replied with a volley of my own thanks, with salvos of praise for him.

A sudden, brilliantly planned salvo came streaking in, saturating the defenses along its path.

Replied Harkness, and a moment later repeated crisply: "All ready for bow-ray salvo, sir!"

"I'm glad to have seen it," said Faith somewhat tremulously, when the salvo was over.

The ship had been struck by three torpedoes, fired in a salvo from a submarine.

Asked Harry, while a salvo on the knocker made the house echo from wall to wall.

Their fire becomes indeed, a thunderous roll, not of salvos, but of rapid fire at will.

At the first salvo from Drummond's seven guns the American militia broke and ran away.

Ordered Barry, as a salvo of light projectiles flew round, over, and through the decoy.

Rain was still splattering in desultory bursts, but distance muted the rumbling salvos' of thunder.

And the soldiers, gay and jolly, fired a salvo of musket shots in their honor.

In the distance the artillery salvos followed one another ever more quickly, peal on peal of thunder.

There was no shouting, however, nor did he announce himself with the usual salvo of firearms.

The warship sent in a salvo of more six-inch shells than had been fired that day.

Instantly, startlingly, in the fog-shrouded spaces of the valley rang out a salvo of gun fire.

The guns of our battleship were roaring their defiance now in salvos that shook the earth.

Our guns fired a salvo, upon which these men, startled out of their lives, crouched down.

Sim shouted over a salvo of thunder and steered frantically toward the opposite side of the gully.

A general salvo from the ramparts finally announced that the Empress had crossed the bridge.

Without much hope of hurting the enemy I fired salvo after salvo from the forward turrets.

They will be sent singly, or in pairs, or in salvos, at a target some little distance away.

Then the searchlights were turned off, and salvos were fired which set the tanks on fire.

Those three last salvos, unwillingly discharged at short range into a helpless hull, did terrible havoc.

Sharply and frighteningly another salvo of shells struck and burst in the little patch of woods.

The audience had to be satisfied with salvo after salvo fired with blank cartridges at imaginary enemies.

As I turned my head to look at the second Hun he straddled us fair with a full salvo.

The country burst into a salvo of welcome; a new era of peace and prosperity was to be inaugurated.

The second salvo of projectiles was less damaging; again the gunners failed to reach the warship's vitals.

Three thousand guns were discharged by the ships in these salvos in honor of their humble progenitor.

His guns astern, powerful fourteen-inch pieces in twin turrets, were in action, firing huge salvos at his pursuers.

Another salvo fell in front of him; he veered to the left and plunged on through the undergrowth.

He was taken by the skiff to the flagship, where he was received with repeated salvos of artillery.

A lucky accident willed it that none of the besieged was wounded by this first salvo of artillery.

As they passed it a bugle sounded on board, followed by a salvo of cheers from the crew.

A perfect tornado of gigantic shells had struck his flagship, the Defense, at the very first salvo.

To be certain of striking these valuable targets would be worth expending a number of torpedoes in salvo fire.

It acted as though it had been hit by a couple of battleship salvos instead of machine gun bullets.

The impromptu salvo of artillery set them thinking, and they did not trouble us again that day.

The sentence was spoken in the midst of a salvo of shrapnel cracks, which he did not hear.

Were shouted quite unconsciously, punctuated by loud cheers when a salvo pitched perilously close to the enemy ships.

They fired three salvos over his grave, and the primate himself said the prayers for his soul.

Another heavy salvo came in, but the computers had its sources pinpointed now, and it was contained.

A faint salvo of applause ushered him out, then swelled into a tempest as the next number went up.

As they drove off, with Boss as chaperone, a perfect salvo of old shoes was thrown after them!

They were received on board the frigate by Napoleon, amid the salvos of artillery and strains of martial music.

In another sense, that of a "salutation" in the form of a volley of shot, we have corrupted it into salvo.

Suddenly, not in the yard, but in the rear of the castle, rang forth a sharp salvo of muskets.

It is only noble birth, distinguished birth, that is chronicled in the journals or announced with salvos of artillery.

Then did he leave him in giving him by way of salvo a volley of farts for his farewell.

With the viciousness of spattering shrapnel that first salvo of frozen pellets raked me across the right cheek.

With the above were found a kind of salvo or perfume spoon in green slate, and a second in alabaster.

As each name was announced, somewhere in the hall an embarrassed youth arose and a salvo of clapping greeted him.

The third of the rapid salvos of the enemy armored cruisers set the Good Hope and the Monmouth afire.

Shouted directions where to find this or that article at its best mingled with salvos of Christmas good wishes.

Salvos from the cruisers, fired at the sheer cliffs, loosed avalanches of earth and rock to block the highway.

She smiled in a way that showed she didn't disapprove of my persistence, but loosed a salvo of devastating negatives.

At that precise moment an unusually loud salvo of French artillery went off by way of a salute to the toast.

At that moment our gunners greeted it with a salvo of shrapnel and struck it, as far as I could judge.

Within the next few salvos both ships found the range, halving the first ranges, and hit the target.

In the midst of the festivities a person entered the room whose appearance was greeted with a salvo of hearty cheers.

The squadron anchored before the island, hoisted French colors, and fired a salvo, which was answered by the place.

Thousands of torches were lit, bells and trumpets pealed, and (in the later centuries) salvos of cannon shook the air.

Three stones, evidently hurled in salvo, ticked off the top of the top of the rocks he was hunched behind.

It went into the tomb of the past, with all its tragic memories, to thunderous salvos, carrying death with them.

Firing in salvos and in succession, the air was soon filled with smoke and heavy dust, which darkened the sky.

And when he steps out upon the new land, they want to shout out their salvos and proclaim him a victor.