Volleys is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VOLLEYS in dictionary:

VERB:
• VOLLEY, to return a ball before it touches the ground
• (in sport, especially tennis or soccer) strike or kick (the ball) before it touches the ground
• utter or discharge in quick succession
NOUN:
• a number of bullets, arrows, or other projectiles discharged at one time
• a series of utterances directed at someone in quick succession
• (in sport, especially tennis or soccer) a strike or kick of the ball made before it touches the ground
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to return a tennis ball before it touches the ground

Words related to VOLLEYS

volley12 volleyed15 volleying16

Words that contain VOLLEYS

minivolleys19

How to use VOLLEYS in a sentence

• The service was read by Chaplain Hughes, of the Forty-Fourth, the guard fired three volleys over the grave, and we returned to quarters.
• Before retreating, however, they let the enemy have a couple of volleys.
• At the intervals in the mass the whole garrison fired salutes, the volleys going down the field, a battalion at a time, now and then reinforced by the cannon on Kosciusko Hill.
• Meantime the combat behind them proceeded with vigor, the shots crashing in volleys, accompanied by shouts, and once by the cry of a stricken soldier.
• Then the Locrians ceased clinging to their rear, but continued their volleys from the vantage-ground above.
• The rain swept down in spiteful volleys, deepening at last into a fierce, steady discharge.
• But a pitiless rain of arrows spread havoc among their ranks, and there were no answering volleys to disturb their foes.
• For an hour the Riders fought blindly, seeing no enemy, but pouring their own volleys in the direction from which the steady streams of Mauser bullets seemed to come.
• Four searchlights were playing, shrapnel was bursting, and a motor machine gun let off volleys from sheer excitement, the sharp tut-tut-tut adding to the general confusion.
• In the meantime the volleys from the Spanish were coming in quite frequently and striking the ground on all sides near where we were.
• With all his boisterous merriment, his volleys of inextinguishable laughter, he never makes game of what is at all worthy of respect.
• They were well within range of Lee-Enfield rifles, and a few volleys well directed sent them to the right-about in anything but good order.
• The intermittent, irregular firing of the Boers was punctuated by the regular, steady reports of British volleys.
• Cheap arguments were fired into Cambridge in volleys.
• Again and again came those awful volleys of musketry and artillery cross-firing on the rushing lines.
• The pretty girl of Art stands lightly on tip-toe and volleys a tennis-ball six feet above her head.
• Scarcely had the first column arrived there, when volleys of musketry were opened by the Insurgents concealed in houses.
• Be this as it may, as soon as they got into Clamart they were received with volleys of musketry, and withdrew.
• They shuddered at the volleys, at the screams of the wounded, and at the triumphant yells of the victors.
• Nearing a crowded bridge at that place, volleys of questions were fired at him.
• Tehama was reached about noon, where they were saluted by volleys fired from shot guns, rifles and revolvers.
• Promptly the volleys rang out, but when the smoke cleared, it was found that the Bab and His companion were still alive.
• When the object is enclosed between two volleys, a mean of the elevation will be adopted as the correct range.
• From the fire of these volleys a mighty smoke was produced.
• Three times the muskets of the regiment of Colleredo fired their volleys.
• About midnight a mob came, pushed open the door, and fired two volleys at the Negroes, killing four immediately and fatally wounding four more.
• Volleys of flashes are plunging in here and there and devouring the other lights.
• Again the heavy volleys blazed out in the gathering twilight, and the sheaves of death grew thicker every moment on the bare hillside.
• The Germans halted, fired a few harmless volleys, and then, turning as one man, bolted to the shelter of the wood, twelve hundred yards in rear.
• Shots are ringing all around and down my street, and the vicious crackling of these rifles grow at times into regular volleys.
• His ancestor as their minister inspiring them with the idea of freedom, my ancestor as an officer, who by word and deed kept the farmers firm before the British volleys.
• Another ship passed, with the same good order, giving and taking its heavy volleys.
• I saw some doors and windows that had been broken with volleys, and they told me that a father who was praying in the window had been killed.
• At the first volleys the admiral and five other men were killed.

Similar words containing VOLLEY without suffix s

volley12 volleyed15 volleyer14 volleyers15 volleying16 minivolley18 volleyball18 minivolleys19 volleyballs19

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