Salute of a sort

Usage examples of salvo.

As he switched on the lights and started brewing the first two pots of his special, secret, dark-roast coffee, Brine was assaulted by a salvo of questions.

He had mentioned the one-to-one ratio simply as an unattainable opening salvo to establish one end-point to the range, however ridiculous that endpoint was, as any good negotiator would start a discussion, with the hope that Schuler might ultimately see his way clear to saying he could underwrite perhaps half a billion dollars.

Chances were that the bird would not have been hit at all, even with a fire-for-effect, six-round salvo from the Chicom mortar men.

If we had more pods, if we could get a better salvo density, it might still make sense to go after them, first.

His neural nanonics automatically fired a salvo of fragmentation rounds at the renewed charge.

The German wedge closest to the crater recoiled under the concerted Russian salvos, their tanks and infantry temporarily stymied.

Electromagnetic rails in the underdeck crackled, firing a pulsed salvo of solid projectiles made of superdense depleted uranium.

From the regular pattern of incoming salvos, the Cerian officers slowly realized that there was nothing left of the enemy army that had moved forward into the mountains around Seltar.

The young politician was already surrounded by a group of friends and acquaintances, and was evidently being made the recipient of a salvo of congratulation - presumably on his recent performances in the Foreign Office debate, Comus concluded.

The gunnery officer watched the displays as the lasers fired the salvo.

Grant ordered, and the ship quivered as it halted in midflight, hesitated, and backed off while a mighty salvo landed a few yards ahead.

While initially the outlanders had taken cover in two tight clusters directly in front of where Niall crouched, they soon began to spread themselves out, creeping noiselessly through the undergrowth, and guarding one another with fierce salvos of red flame.

Southern Alps that had done this to him: Mount Capps, a treacherous peak, full of crevasses and rotten rock, its upper slopes decorated with snow fields that in the morning sun fired salvoes of boulders and later in the day became loose on their foundations and came slithering down like tank regiments, roaring and trailing plumes of pulverised rock and ice.

Thus, Cuba would have the potential to launch a first salvo of forty missiles, and a refire capability of another forty.

Nom Anor spoke, a salvo of plasma balls streaked into the hologram and erupted against the shieldless starliner, opening flash-melted holes in the durasteel hull.