How To Use Bombardment In A Sentence

The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
Today's report says the bombardment of children with messages of what is cool pits children against each other and their parents.
Heavy shelling and bombardment rocked Somalias restive capital Mogadishu on Sunday, claiming the lives of at least 14 people Drag to Playlist WN.com - Business News
Worse yet, their presence frequently meant indiscriminate artillery bombardments against innocent villages suspected of harboring the Vietcong.
The countryside of Pisa had been ravaged by aerial bombardments and artillery barrages, leaving only a wilderness of roofless houses and smoking craters.

—Thousands of visitors from all over the world are expected to flock this month to Charleston, S.C. for a re-enactment of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, commemorating the beginning of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Reliving First Shots of Civil War
I have sustained a continual Bombardment of increased high-stakes testing and accountability-related bureaucracy and a cannonade of gross underfunding for 10 years at least and have lost several good men and women. Texas district schools chief issues plea in Alamo-like letter
Five destroyers were detached to carry out a bombardment of the port.
The bombardment includes the use of fuel-air explosives, cluster bombs, bunker-busting bombs and carpet-bombing.
I strongly feel that your campaign stirs up unnecessary resentment towards a service that has received a constant bombardment of criticism.
They were short of essential supplies and were continually subject to aerial bombardment. Broken Lives
The enemy mad bombardment caused unprecedented death and destruction in the country.
The bombardment continued for a terrible nine hours.
This prevented another bombardment of Henderson Field by the Japanese battleships, but that night their cruisers shelled it heavily.
One cannot ignore the fact that this chessboard is populated by people who have to endure [this crisis] every day," Kurtzer says, point out how Israel considers it absolutely unacceptable to come under constant rocket bombardment from Palestinian areas and how Palestine considers it absolutely unacceptable for Israeli reprisals to carry such "civilian cost. We Want Two States | ATTACKERMAN
The album is a bombardment of autotuned vocals with loud drums and techno beats.
Casualties have been streaming out of the besieged city of Homs, which is under heavy bombardment by Assad's forces. Syria: live from the frontline in Homs
Of course, they also face the constant bombardment from celebrity images in magazines such as Heat. Times, Sunday Times
Periodical intense bombardments all along the line, any one of which might have been the preliminary to a great offensive, left the Germans doubtful as to where the real blow would fall.
The public do not, as yet, know all the circumstances in which the bombardment of an unfortified town took place. Times, Sunday Times
a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake
Besides, where was the prolonged preparatory artillery bombardment? Times, Sunday Times
Ion bombardment affects the stability and lifetime of micro - tip field emission devices.
American warnings had been broadcast to the local population to move inland to avoid the bombardment. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
Despite this bombardment, all ring moons have erosional lifetimes that exceed the solar system's age.
Meanwhile, the massive aerial bombardment/bombing of military targets continued unabated.
The things this man had experienced astounded me: he had run in the Olympics and crossed paths with Hitler; lived through ferocious aerial combat and bombardment on the ground; endured a plane crash, forty-seven days on a tiny life raft, shark attacks, a typhoon and a machine gunning from a Japanese bomber; and, after his capture, joined a daring prisoner underground while enslaved in Japanese POW camps. The New Yorker
The spokesman said: 'The constant bombardment by certain agency photographers at her home has increased anxiety and caused disturbance. Times, Sunday Times
He also says the bombardment lasted for about 90 minutes, but has the infantry attack beginning while the artillery barrage is still going on.
As a product of the cold-war era, it was engineered to withstand aerial bombardment.
Fifteen microlitres microcarrier suspension was used for each bombardment.
And if they're talking about rem, this is presumably a measure of gamma radiation probably a secondary product from magnetospheric charged-particle bombardment of Jupiter's outer atmosphere, or Io's own feeble salt-and-sulfur atmosphere, and would indeed at the doses you've uncovered require significant shielding. Mikandra: crap and duh
From behind the grass covered ramparts above, mortars and heavy guns on the surrounding terreplein would provide heavy bombardment against the enemy.
In 2007, the Russian government punished Estonia for removing a Soviet war memorial by launching a "cyberwar" - a bombardment of hacking and viruses that brought their computers down for weeks. Johann Hari: Has The Internet Brought Us Together -- Or Pulled Us Apart?
Stark warnings and a constant bombardment of information on the fragile nature of Earth's environment surround us on a weekly basis.
The use of modern weapons has made it more difficult to protect civilians from aerial bombardment.
The capital is still under constant bombardment by the rebel forces.
Outline the arguments for and against the late heavy bombardment of a terrestrial planet occurring after its formation. 6.
There are closed shops, crumbling apartment blocks and empty offices and schools, many pancaked from bombardment and pock-marked with bullet and shrapnel holes.
Bombardment by asteroids and comets is an extraterrestrial process that may release huge quantities of water.
But then slowly, inexorably, the great occasion descended into torpor - deliberately induced by a classic Brownite bombardment of figures, forecasts and the odd indisputable fact.
The threesome dealt with an aerial bombardment late in the game as if it was second nature to them.
This theme is one of the elements in his new work, a detailed examination of the brutal history and indefensible consequences of aerial bombardment.
Government forces unleashed airstrikes and artillery bombardment yesterday as they fought back. Times, Sunday Times
It may sound like a dental malady, but cavitation is a powerful natural force, a bombardment of microscopic bubbles that breaks down some of the hardest materials on earth.
Mrs Reston was one of the last to leave, and carried her son across the battery, under heavy bombardment, to the waiting boat.
A propaganda line was prepared, while the city was peppered with repeated bombardment.
They have withstood heavy bombardment for many months.
Plus the punishing impact of US-led aerial bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
It also explains the reliance on aerial bombardment of civilians.
The allies let loose an intensive artillery bombardment over the border.
A stable isotope of potassium, 9K, is converted to 39Ar by neutron bombardment of the sample to be dated.
But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment.
Experiments using X-ray bombardment eliminated electrostatic attraction as a necessary mechanism for setal adhesion since the geckos were still able to adhere in ionized air.
The neutron bombardment is serious: it radioactivates substances and weakens structures.
Pinned down under bombardment outside the strategic town of Cambes, evacuation of the wounded was not easy so Jack was patched up and restored to duty.
Their forces capitulated five hours after the Allied bombardment of the city began.
As they attacked, the men faced machinegun fire and heavy artillery bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
The Early Earth, scientists believe, was subjected to a bombardment by comets and asteroids, and heated to such a degree that its primordial oceans evaporated.
The men kill time collecting the small parachutes from the shells in between attacks and bombardments.
Air bombardment raised criticism on the humanitarian grounds that innocent civilians might suffer.
They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
The aerial bombardments have neutralized the threat of artillery attacks on allied ground forces.
Meanwhile, the massive aerial bombardment/bombing of military targets continued unabated.
But consumer tolerance of marketing bombardment is wearing thin.
But all aerial bombardments, offensive raids, ambushes and assassinations are to come to a halt, he said.
Fifteen microlitres microcarrier suspension was used for each bombardment.
The Classical" and ended with the cacophonous valedictory bombardment of "And This Day", a two-drumkit headfuck not unlike The Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" played by The Glitter Band, which Smith edited randonly down to 10 minutes from around 25. FallNews - Hey Peasants!
In the 1420s when the Byzantines had their first experience of bombardment by cannon, they reduced the effectiveness of the new weapon by suspending bales of material, wood and anything that might absorb and diffuse its impact.
Sun is nuclear frequency magnetic electic air, chemo makes you totally hairless, which is alien silicon skinless,. (chemo treatment of nuclear frequency bombardment removed silicon alien skin),. WN.com - Business News
The city has been flattened by heavy artillery bombardments.
Twenty-four of the Antwerp forts were still holding out today in face of a continuous bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
The enemy plastered the troops in this position, particularly from the air, where he was unmolested, and followed the bombardment by a further attack on our position.
The division commander called down a heavy bombardment on the enemy lines.
The street fighters had no qualms about drawing retaliatory bombardments on civilian areas.
I constantly had the feeling the next round would be mine - especially in an artillery bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
Heavy aerial bombardment by the Americans failed to make much of a dent in the network. Times, Sunday Times
The British bombardment hadn't been that bad, but he had to delegate uninjured soldiers to care for the wounded.
In the past six months bases in the port have come under almost constant bombardment by rebels. The Sun
The effects of the artillery bombardment and the air strikes had been devastating.
I think I expected all of us to be hit by a bombardment of epiphanies that would forever change our perspective on things.
By the time the moon wanes and Ramadan begins, some of the young men we are searching for might be under a different night sky and under bombardment from American aircraft.
It's been 10 days since that massive aerial bombardment.
Orbital bombardment is a wonderful way to destroy a planet or the culture on it. March « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
Knesset member Michael Kleiner said: “The bombardment of Belgrade and other cities and the civilian population also in Yugoslavia is doubtful, especially after the Serbs announced their readiness for a ceasefire.” Matthew Yglesias » Karadzic’s Defense
After an artillery bombardment lasting several days the town finally succumbed.
October "liveliness" was increasing all round, and mutual bombardments were growing more intense. With the British Army in The Holy Land
Soon after 6 pm the spasmodic barking of the night-time cannonade (now normal in spite of its intensity) gave place to a ‘kettle-drum bombardment’.
Studies have found that a constant bombardment of work emails contributes heavily to stress and anxiety. Times, Sunday Times
The allies let loose an intensive artillery bombardment over the border.
The defenders ran out of ammunition while the Royalist besiegers kept up the bombardment as though determined to destroy everything opposing them.
My relatives and friends lived in fear of nuclear attack or bombardment by chemical weapons.
Meanwhile, the massive aerial bombardment/bombing of military targets continued unabated.
None of it now seems especially secret or illegible, but in the forty years that have elapsed I suppose the rest of us have become much less gormless, and better at processing oceans of sensory bombardment. Psychedelic Denver
Air bombardment raised criticism on the humanitarian grounds that innocent civilians might suffer.
Standing before the main battle tridee on the bridge of the damaged but still very battle-worthy Tamerlane, he watched in silent satisfaction as the surviving stingships returned to their mothercraft and the main body of the armada advanced to within orbital bombardment range of both worlds. Dirge
The sulci terrain features are on the trailing hemisphere of Enceladus, leading to the suggestion that they have been protected from bombardment by the bulk of the moon as it encountered debris in its synchronous orbit. Archive 2007-11-01
A stable isotope of potassium, 9K, is converted to 39Ar by neutron bombardment of the sample to be dated.
The media has seized upon the long-anticipated death of the 84-year-old pontiff to subject the American public to a saturation bombardment of religious obscurantism and superstition.
Adding to our jitters will be a TV bombardment of such time-worn horror films as Frankenstein, Dracula and Night of the Living Dead. Dan Dorfman: More Than Those Autumn Leaves Could Fall
There was heavy bombardment all along the coast. The Sun
They were short of essential supplies and were continually subject to aerial bombardment. Broken Lives
On the other front, Germans frequently mistook Soviet mortar barrages for aerial bombardments.
Establish as heavy a bombardment as the cannon will stand against the walls and the guns by the walls.
Companies can use the service too, but will that mean a bombardment of spam?
Government forces unleashed airstrikes and artillery bombardment yesterday as they fought back. Times, Sunday Times
The victim described the enemy's bombardment in a voice shaking with emotion.
The aerial bombardment had continued throughout the night. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
Before the Apollo samples became available, many planetary scientists had favored an early, intense bombardment associated with the late stages in the accretion of the planets.
Plus the punishing impact of US-led aerial bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
In previous wars it took large artillery bombardments to make chemical weapons effective.
The show's overstuffed visual style seems perfectly suited to today's MTV-era of image bombardment.
The heavy artillery bombardment reduced the village to ruins.
smart bombs have revolutionized aerial bombardment
So if massive ad bombardments no longer are the way to build brands, what do these authors recommend?
In tacking we fetched within gunshot of the sternmost of them, and for half an hour or so we kept up a brisk bombardment; but our line was still much out of order, and some of our ships being even now three miles astern, nothing more could be done. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
The enemy mad bombardment caused unprecedented death and destruction in the country.
The Jacobite forces were well entrenched and kept up a steady bombardment of the city, which shredded the defences inside the walls.
Its walled medina, crisscrossed by almost 10,000 alleyways, seems specially designed for sensory bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
As a heavy particle with no charge, it could be used as a powerful projectile in bombardment experiments. Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics
She kept up her bombardment of questions except when she interrupted herself to introduce me to somebody or pass comment on a hairstyle, or the heaviness of someone's makeup.
Web users are getting fed up with the bombardment of irrelevant messages every time they log on.
Although there were no casualties during the bombardment, one Union artillerist was killed and three wounded (one mortally) when a cannon exploded prematurely while firing a salute during the evacuation on April 14. Think Progress » Rep. Paul Broun: The ramifications of health reform will be like ‘the Great War of Yankee Aggression.’
Government forces continued their bombardment of rebel positions on the outskirts of Damascus after insurgents advanced to within a few miles of the heart of the capital. Times, Sunday Times
On film, the battle of Helms Deep is an astonishing nightmare-scale bombardment, a cinematic showdown unlike anything ever witnessed before.
The use of modern weapons has made it more difficult to protect civilians from aerial bombardment.
After my impromptu lecture he fielded a bombardment of sympathetic questions from a packed audience. Times, Sunday Times
The Germans blamed their defeat on the fog hampering their observations as well as the artillery bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
The ventricles respond irregularly to the dysrhythmic bombardment from the atria.
Urban bombardment: Further, Carson feared that as insects mutated into superbugs, general aerial spraying of insecticides would become an everyday event, as, in 1959, parts of Detroit were dusted from low-flying planes with aldrin, a broad toxic since banned, in an attempt to control the Japanese beetle. Averting A Death Foretold
“When Ro and I were put out of phase, it took a bombardment of anyon particles to combat the effect of the chronitons and bring us back into phase.” Star Trek The Next Generation®
Meanwhile, the massive aerial bombardment/bombing of military targets continued unabated.
The bombardment continued for a terrible nine hours.
The enemy mad bombardment caused unprecedented death and destruction in the country.
During the rush on a Saturday night, he looks as if he is overseeing traumatised, scurrying troops during a bombardment.
The Russian air force has suspended its bombardment of the city for two weeks. Times, Sunday Times
The only reason they're thought to have survived the French bombardment was because they'd been built below the waterline. CODE BREAKER
The aerial bombardments have neutralized the threat of artillery attacks on allied ground forces.
A towering red mist hung over them where the brick of the villages was pulverized by the bombardment.
This NASA story, about how the Moon bears witness to the early history of the solar system, and could tell us whether "extinction events" caused by heavy bombardments from outer space really recur every 26 million years on Earth as some have hypothesized, is headlined "The Moon is a harsh witness. Robert A. Heinlein's legacy lives on:
For the pressure to become zero , molecular bombardment must cease.
Each passage is two metres high by one metre wide and reinforced to resist heavy bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
Although partly ruined, largely due to the bombardment by Morozini in 1687, it still fills the visitor with admiration and awe.
That would have been the best way to finally hold Israel accountable for its grave breaches of international humanitarian law, its war crimes, and its crimes against humanity (not least the sealing off an entire civilian population from the outside world, denying it the ability to flee to safety, and then subjecting that same, defenseless, shelterless population -- most of it composed of children -- to an indiscriminate round-the-clock bombardment). Saree Makdisi: Last Straw for the Palestinian "Authority"?
The capital is still under constant bombardment by the rebel forces.
a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium, by bombardment with alpha rays. Irène Joliot-Curie - Nobel Lecture
Nevertheless, there was undisguised relief in both London and Washington that the military campaign had achieved a decisive breakthrough after five weeks of aerial bombardment.
Less than a month to the elections, and ahead lies a bombardment of mind-numbing party political messages to rival the deadly effusions of a Death Star.
The devastating air bombardment of the last four weeks is only the latest of a series of assaults by foreign armies.
Faces were stripped of pretence by the pitiless bombardment of harsh reality.
They were short of essential supplies and were continually subject to aerial bombardment. Broken Lives
A monthlong bombardment has left its cobbled streets and stone houses ruined. Times, Sunday Times
A pillar of black smoke from a burning heap of tires ignited by the bombardment billowed over the port, and nearby the charred shells of some 250 brand new cars, all torched in the shelling, smoldered. NATO jets blast Libyan troops
Earth's magnetic tail is the part of the field that's stretched out like a windsock by the sun's steady bombardment.
Our only autumnal worry on a picnic was avoiding a bombardment of acorns from surrounding oaks. Times, Sunday Times
The first shots of the American Civil War were fired 150 years ago today from Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the two-day bombardment ended in the surrender of the fort to Confederate General Beauregard. Carolyn Vega: Before Chickamauga
The enemy mad bombardment caused unprecedented death and destruction in the country.
The bombardment did no great execution.
Even grief, with all its emotional gravity, is nevertheless subject to being lost in the bombardment of consecutive experiences.
The preliminary bombardment was the heaviest so far mounted: over two weeks 3,100 guns fired some 471/2 million shells.
The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism, and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers.
If the bombardment involved not only comets but also a bunch of these wet meteorites, called carbonaceous chondrites, then the overall deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio of the water raining down from the heavens could have been about right for forming today's oceans and lakes. Earth contains a vast amount of water, but scientists are unsure of its origins
The effects of the artillery bombardment were devastating.
Outline the evidence that some sort of late heavy bombardment occurred on all terrestrial planets. 5.
Alternative methods of treatment for metallic and ceramic surfaces involve excimer or CO2 lasers, or bombardment with high-energy ions, resulting in ablation of surface contaminants.
The victim described the enemy's bombardment in a voice shaking with emotion.
The night sky flared with the massive bombardment
Russians at Blagoveshchensk, in retaliation for Chinese bombardments along the Amur (July 1415) and in fear of attack by the local Chinese, drove several thousand Chinese civilians to their deaths in the river. 1899, Feb
In one 19-day artillery bombardment they used 321 trainloads of shells-one year's production for 55,000 workers.
When the bombardment failed, Salisbury's men built a testudo or "tortoise," a wheeled covered shed under which his men worked battering rams.
It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place.
These were marshalled into their landing sequence before the run inshore while a bombardment by naval and air forces covered the approach.
No one escaped his bombardment of phone calls, faxes and e-mails.
Hundreds have been killed by heavy artillery bombardment. Times, Sunday Times
They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
The division commander called down a heavy bombardment on the enemy lines.
But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment.
The bombardment continued for a terrible nine hours.
Local stories, accents, and images are drowned out by a multi-channel bombardment of glossy programming, bearing little resemblance to the Caribbean experience.
[In the heliotropical noughttime following a fade of trans-formed Tuff and, pending its viseversion, a metenergic reglow of beaming Batt, the bairdboard bombardment screen, if taste-fully taut guranium satin, tends to teleframe and step up to the charge of a light barricade. Finnegans Wake
They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
The allied army began preparations for the offensive, supported by the accurate bombardment of the British by the French cannoneers.
The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers. The 20 Best Progressive Novels
Standing behind me, hidden by shadow and vines and crenelation, he witnessed the bombardment of Quivalen Sath. Virginity
The mood in the American population was markedly subdued as well, outside of the pockets of pro-war zealots and despite (or perhaps because of) the media bombardment.
Last week, when my son's queries were coming at me with the force of an aerial bombardment, I resolved to answer them as simply and directly as I could.
The men suffered continuous shell and mortar bombardment followed by ferocious counter-attacks.
Taylor was forced to retreat to the eastern outskirts of Monrovia on Oct. 12 following aerial bombardment of his positions.
The bombardment did no great execution.
Thunder exploded, roll after roll after roll, so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment.
Explants were incubated at different temperatures (°C) after bombardment and analysed for reporter-gene expression.
Scarborough had even suffered a naval bombardment!
Less than a month to the elections, and ahead lies a bombardment of mind-numbing party political messages to rival the deadly effusions of a Death Star.
These three books are the first salvo in a bombardment that will surely intensify as the anniversary approaches. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology.
At Flushing the commandos began landing before dawn after a heavy artillery bombardment on the port.
Hope's gunboats came under heavy bombardment from the Chinese batteries, and one, the Plover, lost thirty-one out of her crew of forty, her commander was killed, the admiral was wounded, and the remaining nine seamen were fighting their guns against hopeless odds. Flashman and the Dragon
Taylor was forced to retreat to the eastern outskirts of Monrovia on Oct. 12 following aerial bombardment of his positions.
At 3: 30 in the afternoon, the bombardment from the artillery by land and on the river, began. PhotoHunter: Lick « Mudpuddle

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