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Plural of volley

regular plural

The plural of volley is volleys.

Forms of volley

Singularvolley /ˈvɒli/
Pluralvolleys
Countablecountable

Volleys in a sentence

  • In pickleball, a foot fault occurs when a player volleys a ball while in the kitchen, or non-volley zone.From the entry foot fault
  • The rapid handing out of the diplomas brought frequent applause—bits, spatters, volleys, as the case might be.1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 32, in Bertram Cope’s Year. From the entry spatter
  • I got volleys of circular letters threatening to decharter our chapter or part of it if we didn't get subscriptions to the PALM.1922 MAY, CHAS. B. COOLIDGE, “WHAT THE PALM MEANS ΤΟ ΜΕ”, in THE PALM, volume XLII, number 2, THE ALPHA TAU OMEGA FRATERNITY, page 119. From the entry decharter
  • Although he’s recently improved his serve and his volleys and possesses one of the best drop shots in the game, he is fundamentally a conservative, defensive player.2021 July 22, Park MacDougald, “All hail Novak Djokovic, king of anti-tennis”, in Washington Examiner. From the entry anti-tennis
  • Fundamentalists fired volleys of Left Behind novels, in which Jesus returns to Earth to battle the Anti-Christ (whose day job was secretary general of the United Nations).2009 November 25, Nicholas D[onabet] Kristof, “The Religious Wars”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry anti-christ

Meaning of volley

  1. noun The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.
  2. noun A burst or emission of many things at once.
  3. noun The flight of a ball just before it bounces.

Full definition of volley

Questions about the plural of volley

What is the plural of volley?
The plural of volley is volleys.
Is volley countable?
Volley is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: volley (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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