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Sentence Examples At Flushing the commandos began landing before dawn after a heavy artillery bombardment on the port. The ventricles respond irregularly to the dysrhythmic bombardment from the atria. Despite this bombardment, all ring moons have erosional lifetimes that exceed the solar system's age. I think I expected all of us to be hit by a bombardment of epiphanies that would forever change our perspective on things. As a product of the cold-war era, it was engineered to withstand aerial bombardment. The neutron bombardment transforms certain isotopes of the elements into radioactive species which then emit gamma rays. The British bombardment hadn't been that bad, but he had to delegate uninjured soldiers to care for the wounded. The radiation bombardment in deep space, farther away from the protection of Earth, likely will be much more intense. In the 1930s the Italian fascists under Mussolini waged a brutal war against Ethiopia, using poison gas and aerial bombardment. The Jacobite forces were well entrenched and kept up a steady bombardment of the city, which shredded the defences inside the walls. Explants were incubated at different temperatures after bombardment and analysed for reporter-gene expression. A propaganda line was prepared, while the city was peppered with repeated bombardment. Other radioisotopes are produced in fission reactors through bombardment by the neutrons that were released in the fission chain reaction. The push inland was also aided by a renewed short-range bombardment by Allied destroyers against enemy strongpoints. The bombardment includes the use of fuel-air explosives, cluster bombs, bunker-busting bombs and carpet-bombing. The allied army began preparations for the offensive, supported by the accurate bombardment of the British by the French cannoneers. On film, the battle of Helms Deep is an astonishing nightmare-scale bombardment, a cinematic showdown unlike anything ever witnessed before. The mood in the American population was markedly subdued as well, outside of the pockets of pro-war zealots and despite the media bombardment. Web users are getting fed up with the bombardment of irrelevant messages every time they log on. Some see restaurants as a last refuge, the only place left to escape bombardment by warnings about what not to eat. Show More Sentences Today's report says the bombardment of children with messages of what is cool pits children against each other and their parents. Even grief, with all its emotional gravity, is nevertheless subject to being lost in the bombardment of consecutive experiences. But one thing we know is the brain craves simplicity especially in the face of today's media bombardment. Stark warnings and a constant bombardment of information on the fragile nature of Earth's environment surround us on a weekly basis. The show's overstuffed visual style seems perfectly suited to today's MTV-era of image bombardment. Companies can use the service too, but will that mean a bombardment of spam? I strongly feel that your campaign stirs up unnecessary resentment towards a service that has received a constant bombardment of criticism. The men suffered continuous shell and mortar bombardment followed by ferocious counter-attacks. Particle coating and bombardment conditions were carried out basically as described previously, with a biolistic helium gun device. This prevented another bombardment of Henderson Field by the Japanese battleships, but that night their cruisers shelled it heavily. In one 19-day artillery bombardment they used 321 trainloads of shells-one year's production for 55,000 workers. Mrs Reston was one of the last to leave, and carried her son across the battery, under heavy bombardment, to the waiting boat. Fortresses of this era employed cleverly designed bastions and walls to defy storming by enemy troops and survive bombardment by enemy cannon. The threesome dealt with an aerial bombardment late in the game as if it was second nature to them. He also says the bombardment lasted for about 90 minutes, but has the infantry attack beginning while the artillery barrage is still going on. The bombardment by bangers, crackers and fireworks was such that there was hardly a silent minute in any town, of any size, in County Mayo. The war memorials now perched high on the hills list endless warships and naval auxiliaries that went down under bombardment. The album is a bombardment of autotuned vocals with loud drums and techno beats. The ad bombardment has reached new heights with pop-overs and auto-play videos that often bring my browser to its knees. During the rush on a Saturday night, he looks as if he is overseeing traumatised, scurrying troops during a bombardment. Show More Sentences Although partly ruined, largely due to the bombardment by Morozini in 1687, it still fills the visitor with admiration and awe. The New Zealanders again attacked the town of Cassino, this time after a massive air strike and artillery bombardment. In the following hours, the villages would be rubbled by continuous bombardment. In the second half at Bolton in particular, every man jack in that Rovers team gave every ounce of effort to preserve that lead in the face of a continual aerial bombardment. What the people of Mosul now fear most is aerial bombardment of their own city. Others fired into buildings already wrecked either by NATO airstrikes last year or by the bombardment of recent days. 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 also explains the reliance on aerial bombardment of civilians. At the same time, it has escalated the tempo of aerial bombardment and resumed its scorched earth campaign against civilians. The Medieval walls without flanks and terreplein to resist gunpowder bombardment were easy prey to the besiegers and the fortifications soon succumbed. From behind the grass covered ramparts above, mortars and heavy guns on the surrounding terreplein would provide heavy bombardment against the enemy. Fifteen microlitres microcarrier suspension was used for each bombardment. The Moon's regolith was created by the ceaseless bombardment of micrometeorites, cosmic rays and particles of solar wind breaking down rocks for billions of years. The defenders ran out of ammunition while the Royalist besiegers kept up the bombardment as though determined to destroy everything opposing them. 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. Local stories, accents, and images are drowned out by a multi-channel bombardment of glossy programming, bearing little resemblance to the Caribbean experience. No one escaped his bombardment of phone calls, faxes and e-mails. But consumer tolerance of marketing bombardment is wearing thin. 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. 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. Show More Sentences There are closed shops, crumbling apartment blocks and empty offices and schools, many pancaked from bombardment and pock-marked with bullet and shrapnel holes. 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. The close dates of the major impact basins suggested that the Moon experienced a late, heavy bombardment of large impactors around 3.8 to 4 billion years ago. This theme is one of the elements in his new work, a detailed examination of the brutal history and indefensible consequences of aerial bombardment. 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. This city has been pounded by artillery, by air strikes, by 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 Early Earth, scientists believe, was subjected to a bombardment by comets and asteroids, and heated to such a degree that its primordial oceans evaporated. On 21 May, having sapped up to the glacis of the city ramparts, which heavy bombardment had almost made untenable, Versaillais troops entered the city. 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. He left New York in May and arrived in Paris as the city was under bombardment from German artillery. On 11 April the British squadron entered the harbour and opened fire, whilst Nelson took command of the land forces and commenced bombardment. He carried out a bombardment and personally led an amphibious assault on 3 July. The offensive that followed again relied on heavy bombardment which allowed the British infantry to capture the ridge in one day. Following several weeks of bombardment, the explosives in 19 of these mines were detonated, resulting in the deaths of 10,000 Germans. Known as ion implantation, the treatment is a bombardment process in which the near-surface of a metal is drastically modified by energetic ions. The bombardment opened late because of the need to tow Marshal Soult, which slowed the fleet and also by haze off the harbour. German coastal guns replied within minutes of the bombardment from the monitors and fired accurately at Erebus and Terror but with no effect. The Luftwaffe executed the heaviest air bombardment the world had yet witnessed and the most intense by the Germans during the war. The German bombardment was extended to the harbour, where there was a hospital train full of wounded waiting to be evacuated. Show More Sentences The French garrison of Fort Nieulay, outside the western ramparts surrendered after a bombardment. The German bombardment increased during the day, despite attempts by Allied ships to bombard German gun emplacements. For years, it was assumed that Adolf Hitler ordered the German Army to stop the attack, favouring bombardment by the Luftwaffe. The plan called for a frontal assault, without any heavy preliminary air bombardment. Geyr also noted that in the Italian Campaign the armour stationed near the coast had been damaged by naval bombardment. After 20 minutes of general bombardment, the guns switched to precision targets in support of the advancing infantry. These forts, built in masonry and shaped stone, were designed to shelter their garrison against bombardment. Such conditions were unlikely to recur for several days and so a second bombardment on the following day would be most unlikely. The allies failed to capture the city, but bombardment by Shovell's forces panicked the French into scuttling their own fleet. After a hard fight, Nayan's troops withdrew behind their carts, and Li Ting began bombardment and attacked Nayan's camp that night. In 1485 they laid siege to Ronda, which surrendered after only a fortnight due to extensive bombardment. The following night, the Portuguese again sent two envoys to the Chinese fleet, but were met with a brief bombardment. These buildings and the old town of Massawa remain to this day, having withstood both earthquakes and wars with aerial bombardment. The Spanish garrison on the island was small, but survived a Dutch bombardment. But his paint-bombing bombardment and this train are generative, fecund gestures, as well as scatalogical. Gaining and maintaining air superiority was the top priority and was achieved by the bombardment of enemy airdromes on Pantelleria and Sicily. A number of the scientific instruments on the Vegas suffered in the dust bombardment, but none was destroyed on both craft. Several attempts to close the Flanders ports by bombardment failed and Operation Hush, a 1917 plan to advance up the coast, proved abortive. He showed me where to pull the clanger, and I pulled and pulled and the clanging joined the music of the bombardment. We have to thank God as we have been rescued from the evil actions of Arabization, murdering and bombardment of former Baath Regime. Show More Sentences They were evacuees from their home in Croydon, south London, which was under intensive bombardment from Hitler's deadly flying bombs. In July 1882, the city came under bombardment from British naval forces and was occupied. The bombardment, which had been carefully targeted by means of aerial photography, began on 22 September. Feldspars and carbonates are ubiquitous minerals that are known to luminesce under electron bombardment. This bombardment will effectively kill the spores and eliminate the biohazard threat. After an initial bombardment of 12 Jaffa-sized balls of soil and groundbait, Ian presented single and double bloodworm over the top of his bait. It was a terrifying bombardment of rocks, palm trunks and flaming naphtha. Defensive mines along coasts made it much more difficult for capital ships to get close enough to conduct coastal bombardment or support attacks. The reason for using the multifilament design is to make the tethers more resistant to micrometeoroid bombardment. The Imperial Navy's tasks were then to prevent any invasion force from landing and to protect coastal towns from possible bombardment. The bombardment continued and after a week or so Cromwell's troops breached the defences when the commander of the castle surrendered. One of the major limiting wear factors is the deterioration of the reactor's pressure vessel under the action of neutron bombardment. A sustained Austrian artillery bombardment eventually convinced Napoleon to withdraw his forces back onto Lobau Island. Repositioning their guns, the British brought Calvi under constant bombardment, and the town surrendered on 10 August. If, as seems likely, such a bombardment struck Earth at the same time, the first atmosphere and oceans may have been stripped away. The artillery of the Second and Fifth armies conducted a bombardment to simulate a general attack as a deception. German artillery began a bombardment between the Menin road and the Reutelbeek. The subsequent bombardment to support the attack fell short in places, hitting British troops and provoking German artillery fire. Unable to move further, the troops were ordered to dig in to await a renewed British bombardment. A castle that once could only be captured after a prolonged siege would now fall after a few days from cannon bombardment. Show More Sentences Owing to the danger from aerial bombardment, the Chadwicks sent their twins to Canada as part of a government evacuation scheme. On 7 July, the division launched two battalions upon the wood after a brief preliminary bombardment. Aerial bombardment and surface-to-surface missiles were launched heavily on the city at around noon time Libya time. The source confirmed that the intense bombardment led to parallelize the IS movement and prevent any progress towards the city of Kirkuk. As a result of this bombardment, former Dervish territories were turned into a protectorate of Britain. To research a possible link between US bombardment and rates of birth defects and pediatric cancer in Iraq is a moral imperative. While Nelson directed a continuous bombardment of the enemy positions, Stuart's men began to advance. However, after five days of artillery bombardment the Russian army was able to storm it. In late 1994, Rabbani's defense minister, Ahmad Shah Massoud, defeated Hekmatyr in Kabul and ended ongoing bombardment of the capital. He also noted that, in the Italian Campaign, the armoured units stationed near the coast had been damaged by naval bombardment. A few weeks later, after extensive artillery bombardment, a breach was opened in the main walls of the fortress of Seringapatam. Attacks began with artillery bombardment, followed by bombing and strafing runs. Commanding a small flotilla of frigates and smaller vessels, he landed a force of 167 seamen and marines early on the morning of 8 March under a supporting bombardment. The ditch was extremely vulnerable to bombardment with explosive shells. Covered by naval bombardment, the army drove off the French force detailed to oppose their landing, captured Cherbourg, and destroyed its fortifications, docks, and shipping. The attack had been preceded by seven days of heavy artillery bombardment. The planets continued to sweep up, or eject, the remaining matter during a period of intense bombardment, evidenced by the many impact craters on the Moon. They were sent ashore to assess damage to Turkish fortifications after bombardment by British and French ships and, if necessary, to complete their destruction. The four men were among 22 Uyghurs who claimed to be refugees, who were captured in 2001 in Pakistan after fleeing the American aerial bombardment of Afghanistan. Orient caught fire under this bombardment, and later exploded. Show More Sentences The researchers found that even an Earth-like magnetic field could not necessarily protect a habitable-zone world from the star's continuous stellar wind bombardment. In May 1684, as a punishment for Genoese support for Spain, the city was subjected to a French naval bombardment, with some 13,000 cannonballs aimed at the city. The effect was to straighten out the front line, which was thought necessary in preparation for a massive artillery bombardment with a major push. Most of the offshore bombardment had missed the German defences. The bombardment force sailed for Zeebrugge three times, when changes in the weather forced a return to England but on 11 May, Bacon ordered another attempt the next day. The bombardment ships had taken position, the motor launches had formed a line, ready to generate the smokescreen and the escorts formed a square round the monitors. After the German occupation and bombardment of the tram depot, the use of buses took over, and it was not until 1962 that the network had several lines. The first synthesis of gold was conducted by Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka, who synthesized gold from mercury in 1924 by neutron bombardment. Blue cheese may be more accurate than green when an astronaut finally steps off into the rough, dark, opaque material left by micrometeorite bombardment. Since that time aircraft capabilities had improved considerably and the prospect of widespread aerial bombardment of civilian areas was causing the government anxiety. Correia was the son of merchant and explorer Aires Correia, who had gained notoriety during the Portuguese bombardment of Calicut a generation earlier. The overall commander of the Allied Naval Expeditionary Force, providing close protection and bombardment at the beaches, was Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay. After a quarter of a century of holding the British at bay, the Dervishes were finally defeated in 1920 as a direct consequence of Britain's new policy of aerial bombardment. Lebanese women, in the midst of the media's bombardment of an unattainable beauty ideal, feel compelled to meet the 21st centry body commandments at any cost. The average was maintained until June, when the rate fell to about one submarine per day, to an extent due to a bombardment of Zeebrugge on 9 June. Examples from Classical Literature After the bombardment is completed the target is removed from the cyclotron. Two subchaser units, six boats, were assigned as a screen to the Italian cruisers while the bombardment was under way. Three months previously to this bombardment of Kagoshima another puissant feudatory had thrown down the gauntlet. That was just after the Simonosaki bombardment, and before the daimio affair. On June 7, after another terrific bombardment, the French stormed the mamelon, though not without a serious struggle. In the end the new bombardment group only served to limit black participation in the air war. The detonation of a cartridge or so when a bombardment is going on, what does it count for? General Whish captured the town of Multan, and by terrible bombardment of the citadel brought Mulraj to surrender. The most effective bombardment of Castillo de San Marcos occurred during the 1740 siege, and shot did the most damage. The bombardment of unfortified and undefended towns and places for the nonpayment of ransom is forbidden. Something must evidentially be done to satisfy his honour, and Francis I. unwillingly gave orders for the bombardment of Nice. The fort, showing signs of reanimation, was treated to another bombardment, which effectually settled it. This bombardment of Quemoy has been going on almost continuously ever since. When the bombardment had somewhat weakened the Chinese fire, General Fukushima ordered the general advance. This is due to the bombardment of the zinc sulphide by a type of ray called the alpha ray. At 5.30 in the afternoon came the order to advance, after a bombardment by the fleet. Belgrade was not again, during that period at least, subjected to bombardment. There was military excuse for the bombardment of the city of Rheims. The continued explosions of the demolitions resembled a bombardment. The bombardment of Strasburg is also a popular subject in Mulhouse. Show More Sentences For the bombardment kept up for days and the Emperor could not escape. The warships in the harbor that had escaped the bombardment were blown up. Then commenced a bombardment which brought forth earthshaking roars from Numa. This was the severest bombardment the Battalion had ever been in. At the bombardment of Bender he had become a Cossack hetman. Reports that Baghdad is under the heaviest bombardment for days, thundrous explosions and columns of smoke rising over the city. The icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, such as Europa and Enceladus, are likely to have undergone cometary bombardment. There was a roar in his ears like the bombardment of unearthly artillery. Under my feet, so to say, I saw the bombardment of the Town of Neisse. The bombardment grew in intensity as the zero hour approached. In the case of chlorobutyl and bromobutyl, the polymer degradation which occurs under electron bombardment, was also exploited for obtaining contrast. At that juncture, the six cannon of Wilkinson's division belatedly came up the road along the riverbank, unlimbered, and commenced an effective bombardment. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of bombardment? Words that rhyme with bombardment What is the plural of bombardment? What is the adjective for bombardment? What is the noun for bombardment? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words bombarding Bombardier bombardier bombarded Bombard bombard bombardments bombardon bombards bombasine bombast bombastic 11-letter Words Starting With b bo bom bomb bomba bombar bombard bombardm bombardme bombardmen