VOLLEY Synonyms: 53 Similar and Opposite Words

volley

noun

ˈvä-lē

Definition of volley

as in barrage

a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once surprised by the volley of complaints about cable service in the area

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Recent Examples of volley Messi made an impact early, scoring an equalizer in the 11th minute on a volley off a long cross from Noah Allen after Inter Miami had fallen behind following a sluggish start. — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026 Medasin, whose thesis was already overflowing with preemptive volleys and counterfactuals, batted away the refutation. — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 4 Aug. 2026 Then the dogs, the cats, the children who must have been awoken by the blare of the siren, followed by their mothers, who quickly found one another amid a volley of conjectures. — Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026 Three minutes later, Son put away a volley after Carles Gil stopped a ball at the end line and whipped a cross into the center of the box. — Kamran Nia july 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for volley

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The barrage killed a 78-year-old woman in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and another person in the northern Kharkiv region, with at least 14 people reported wounded elsewhere, Ukrainian officials said.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Iran’s state media, in turn, has waged a sophisticated propaganda campaign, publishing a barrage of content and misinformation meant to sway public opinion of the wider war and diminish its government’s losses.

— Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026

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However, this flurry of spy satellite development was short-lived.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
But over the next two decades, the singer would reiterate her legacy as an unstoppable force with a flurry of world tours, studio albums, film projects, corporate partnerships, and books.

— Stephen L. Betts, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of flurry

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