How to Use bombard in a Sentence

bombard

verb
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  • The navy bombarded the shore.
  • The car was bombarded by rocks as it drove away from the angry crowd.
  • Scientists bombarded the sample with X-rays.
  • In the month of May alone, Russia bombarded Kyiv 17 times.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • Millions of flies, as though a squadron of them had been assigned to bombard us.
    — Michael Robinson Chavez, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Mastodon doesn't bombard you with waves of posts and there's no advertisements.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Russian forces had been pushed out of the city in November but continued to bombard it.
    — Johanna Chisholm, WIRED, 8 July 2023
  • Parents are bombarded by the message that any failure on their part may mess their kids up for life.
    — Alison Escalante, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Fans bombarded her with comments about the episode's result.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Give me imaginative ads, sure, but also, don’t bombard me with the same ads.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
  • We are bombarded with too much clear evidence to the contrary.
    — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But, according to Tarek, viewers bombard him with the question of how much the houses on the show sell for afterwards.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 5 June 2023
  • The poor fish has been bombarded with spinners, worms, and every color of Power Bait sold.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Still Floyd bombarded the Lakers with drives, short jumpers and 3-pointers.
    — Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
  • Gaza is now under seige, and Israel has both bombarded the area and told around half the population to leave.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Meanwhile, a series of storms are forecast to bombard the Northwest over the next several days.
    — Daniel Amarante, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • And experts tell CBS News that part of the effort to sway those voters has been to bombard them with disinformation.
    — Cristina Corujo, Sheena Samu, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • At best, you can get bombarded with annoying spam emails.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Of course, with a fashion moment like this one, Kelsea's comment section was bombarded by fans.
    — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 18 Feb. 2023
  • After a doctor’s visit, one of them got bombarded with demands to review and rate the practice.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2023
  • But Yu was soon bombarded by insults and curses, mainly from males.
    — Cheng Cheng, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Also bombarded: the bookers of daytime talk shows, late-night talk shows and Saturday Night Live.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
  • You got bombarded a lot over three hours with a very fast moving scenes, a lot of fast moving camera stuff, very loud noises, a loud score, and a lot of visual jump cuts.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • One of the women’s friends on campus had been bombarded with hate mail and was too scared to leave her house; a rotating group of students had been escorting her to class.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Unlike the pop stars who have been bombarded with phones, wheels of cheese, and the cremains of dead relatives, Aubrey has been welcoming bras onto his stage with open arms.
    — Vulture, 6 Sep. 2023
  • What struck her the most were talk show interviews conducted by male hosts where Shields, at the age of 11 or 12, was bombarded with questions about her appearance.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 19 Aug. 2023
  • No one bothered Close, but he was bombarded by photo requests.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Nikita Malaki, 17, feels most at home on stage after his own hometown of Kyiv was bombarded by rocket fire.
    — Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 21 June 2023
  • Consumers bombarded with membership offers are promised perks such as free deliveries and first dibs on new launches, but also in some cases the right to jump ahead of non-members on reservation lists and in customer service queues.
    — Anne D'innocenzio, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • When his family’s neighborhood in northern Gaza was bombarded in early December, three pieces of shrapnel struck Abdel Rahman, fracturing his skull.
    — Nariman El-Mofty Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024

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