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How to use bombardment in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Bombardment means the act of bombing, especially towns or cities. Example: “Most of the town of Vovchansk was destroyed overnight due to the intense bombardment.”

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  • Most of the town of Vovchansk was destroyed overnight due to the intense bombardment.2024 May 13th, “Reporting from Ukraine” (channel name), 12 May: CONVOYS ABLAZE! Ukrainians Destroy Russian Convoys Already at the Border |…. From the entry Vovchansk
  • Thus, the bombardment mission was still possible to accomplish, since, on the U.S.2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 23:45 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived…. From the entry roll over
  • But his paint-bombing bombardment and this train are generative, fecund gestures, as well as scatalogical.2009 September 21, Adrian Searle, “Anish Kapoor: A very fine mess”, in Guardian. From the entry scatalogical
  • Special mechanical or explosive devices, artillery or aerial bombardment, or specially trained teams accomplish this.1969, Engineer Field Data, pages 3–17. From the entry hasty breaching
  • Ansai district—Ansai is densely populated and rich in agricultural products; besides, it is safely placed from bombardment.1941, Nym Wales, China Builds for Democracy: A Story of Cooperative Industry, New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., →OCLC, page 297. From the entry Ansai
  • Two and a half miles below, smoke from the artillery bombardment drifted like dirty ground-mist, speckled with soft, small flashes.2011, Derek Robinson, Hornet's Sting. From the entry ground-mist
  • The proposed mechanism of dust ejection from the satellite surfaces is their continuous hypervelocity bombardment by interplanetary micrometeoroids.2006 August, Alexander V. Krivov, Artem G. Feofilov, Valeri V. Dikarev, “Search for the putative dust belts of Mars: The late 2007…. From the entry circummartian
  • A highway ran along here, which permitted us to bring up artillery and to subject the aul to preliminary bombardment.1993, Eduard M[artynovich] Dune; Diane P. Koenker and S[tephen] A[nthony] Smith, translators and editors, Notes of a Red Guard, Urbana…. From the entry aul
  • Meanwhile, Kweilin had come under Japanese aerial bombardment.1944, James Keller, Meyer Berger, Men of Maryknoll, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pages 153–154. From the entry Kweilin
  • This time the Chinese communists subjected the island of Jinmen (Quemoy) and the Mazu (Matsu) archipelago in the Taiwan Strait to a powerful bombardment.2023, Alexander V. Pantsov, “Under Washington's Wing”, in Steven I. Levine, transl., Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang…. From the entry Mazu
  • To research a possible link between US bombardment and rates of birth defects and pediatric cancer in Iraq is a moral imperative.2012 October 25, Ross Caputi, “The victims of Fallujah's health crisis are stifled by western silence”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 07 Jan…. From the entry moral imperative
  • He showed me where to pull the clanger, and I pulled and pulled and the clanging joined the music of the bombardment.2011, Jerry Spinelli, Milkweed, unnumbered page. From the entry clanger
  • They felt confident that the weeklong artillery bombardment of the German lines had weakened the enemy and that they would encounter little resistance once the "big push" began.2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 105. From the entry weeklong
  • The attack finally ceased Monday morning, but "soon after candlelight, came on a most terrible bombardment and cannonade, on both sides, as if heaven and earth were engaged."2005, Jacqueline Barbara Carr, After the Siege: A Social History of Boston 1775-1800, page 35. From the entry candlelight
  • I never got racked by a baseball or softball, but we did have a gym teacher, who insisted on a weekly session of a "cruelty sport" called bombardment.1999 November 2, Squad Leader, “CUPS Required for Gym Class?”, in alt.support.jock-strap (Usenet). From the entry rack

Meaning of bombardment

  1. noun The act of bombing, especially towns or cities.
  2. noun Heavy artillery fire.
  3. noun The incidence of an intense stream of high-energy particles directed at a substance.

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Questions about bombardment in a sentence

How do you use bombardment in a sentence?
Bombardment is used as a noun. For example: “Most of the town of Vovchansk was destroyed overnight due to the intense bombardment.”
What is a short sentence with bombardment?
“Meanwhile, Kweilin had come under Japanese aerial bombardment.”
What does bombardment mean?
Bombardment means the act of bombing, especially towns or cities.

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