Crossword-Solution: VOLLEY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Volley | n. | A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms. |
| Volley | n. | A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words. |
| Volley | n. | A return of the ball before it touches the ground. |
| Volley | n. | A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket. |
| Volley | v. t. | To discharge with, or as with, a volley. |
| Volley | v. i. | To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys. |
| Volley | v. i. | To return the ball before it touches the ground. |
| Volley | v. i. | To send the ball full to the top of the wicket. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VOLLEY | anagram | LOVELY |
We have 38 clues for the answer “VOLLEY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Lovely (anag) | 1 answer |
| A number of bullets, arrows, or other missiles fired at one time | 1 answer |
| Action on the tennis court. | 1 answer |
| Badminton exchange | 1 answer |
| Flight of a ball, in tennis. | 1 answer |
| Football shot | 1 answer |
| Hit on the fly | 1 answer |
| Salvo of bullets | 1 answer |
| Shot seen at Wimbledon | 1 answer |
| Strike a ball before it bounces | 1 answer |
| hit before it touches the ground | 1 answer |
| CANNON shot | 2 answers |
| ASSAULT place | 2 answers |
| Court shot | 3 answers |
| gunnery | 4 answers |
| FIRE (tennis) | 5 answers |
| flak | 5 answers |
| naval barrage | 6 answers |
| Tennis shot | 7 answers |
| CROSSFIRE | 9 answers |
| A BARRAGE OF ACID COMMENTS | 10 answers |
| Badmin-ton need | 12 answers |
| Fire at ___! | 14 answers |
| cannonade | 17 answers |
| shoot down | 17 answers |
| gunfire | 19 answers |
| detonation | 19 answers |
| Kind of ball | 21 answers |
| Shots | 22 answers |
| fusillade | 26 answers |
| Firing | 26 answers |
| Shooting ___ | 28 answers |
| bombardment | 29 answers |
| Salvo | 31 answers |
| BLITZ ___ | 35 answers |
| Shower | 43 answers |
| Barrage | 45 answers |
| Outburst | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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ATREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with VOLLEY (5)
Xavier and to make her feel thankful that she was not a matador,—Marie broke out with a volley of questions.
Dimmesdale longed at least to shake hands with the tarry blackguard, and recreate himself with a few improper jests, such as dissolute sailors so abound with, and a volley of good, round, solid, satisfactory, and heaven-defying oaths! It was not so much a better principle, as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis.
The Ripley gunners, unseasoned artillery volunteers who ought never to have been placed in such a position, fired one wild, premature, ineffectual volley, and bolted on horse and foot through the deserted village, while the Martian, without using his Heat-Ray, walked serenely over their guns, stepped gingerly among them, passed in front of them, and so came unexpectedly upon the guns in Painshill Park, which he destroyed.
Volley after volley they vomited upon the temple guards; volley on volley crashed through the thin air toward the fleeting and illusive fliers.
Guards sprang to drag Thuvia away, but ere they had succeeded she had hurled a volley of commands at the listening brutes, and as one they turned and marched back into their dens.
Quotes with VOLLEY (3)
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table…
One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of science in particular and rational thought in general, Dawkins and I are ignoring the very widespread claim by believers in God that their faith is quite beyond reason, not a matter to which such mundane methods of testing applies. It is not just unsympathetic, he claimed, but strictly …
Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1955–2015).