How to Use salvo in a Sentence

salvo

noun
  • In the first salvo, each man gets the other in the arm.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
  • In the first salvo, one rocket landed in a field in the Golan Heights.
    Ilan Ben Zion, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Or is this just the opening salvo in a broader war on the rest of Ukraine?
    NBC News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • In the next salvo, at 20 paces apart, one is hit in the shoulder, another in the side.
    Vulture, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The board filed a legal salvo of its own against Disney in state court.
    Douglas Soule, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There’s been a new salvo launched in the battle over Château Miraval.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 11 July 2023
  • The custom keycaps are the first salvo in HyperX’s plans.
    PCMAG, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The attacks were the second-largest salvo since the allies first struck Houthi targets on Jan. 11.
    Helene Cooper, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The latest salvo comes in the form of a New York Times piece that has the family’s fingerprints all over it.
    Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 22 Sep. 2023
  • That was merely the opening salvo in an endgame process designed to push the contestants to their limits.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Crawford ended a Round 7 salvo of punches with a body shot that made Spence stiffen.
    Morgan Campbell, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • The latest salvo is a new 22-word statement equating the global risk of AI to that of pandemics and nuclear war.
    Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • Less than a minute into the half, Guckian fired a salvo from the left side from 20 yards out that Morse goalie Carlos Renteria got a piece of but could not secure.
    Rick Hoff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • That month, the militants fired their first salvo: cruise missiles aimed at Israel.
    Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • This blanketed an area of over four football fields per rocket, so a salvo of six would blanket half a square mile.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • As opponents feared at the time, the 2017 tax has proved the opening salvo in an attack on college endowments.
    Burton G. Malkiel, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The officer runs from behind the police SUV to take cover while another salvo bursts in the background, the video shows.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The scoring essentially came in three waves, and Cincinnati fired the opening salvo.
    Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 30 June 2022
  • Whether Zuckerberg’s return salvo will land with consumers remains to be seen.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Every account of the judicial confirmation wars reads like the War of the Roses, with each side claiming that the other side launched the first salvo.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
  • When his phone rang the next morning, the columnist expected another salvo from the mayor.
    James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The split screen served as the opening salvo of the general election after Trump clinched the nomination this week when Nikki Haley dropped out of the race.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Coinbase’s lawyer told Fortune that, even if the court sides with the SEC, this lawsuit is just an opening salvo that will give it standing to sue over broader issues.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Richarlison was one of a handful of players whose connection with those fans also played a key role in this late-season salvo.
    James Nalton, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • The latest official salvo has come from the U.S. That further raises the already long odds of a quick delisting and relisting elsewhere.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • But this incident is simply the opening salvo of a decades-long struggle between the village and the company.
    Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2021
  • That public posturing was only the latest salvo launched between the two men.
    Justin Gomez, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Her decision is a poignant nod to climate change, but it could also be glossed as a salvo against a controlling parent.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Donahoe’s strong endorsement of coming into the office is the latest salvo in the debate over the future of work.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The latest salvo against Visa credit cards is part of a bigger battle to revamp online payments.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 18 Jan. 2022

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