Similar words: bombastic, amendment, first amendment, bomb, combat, bombing, embark, bombshell. Meaning: [-mənt] n. 1. the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays) 2. the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) 3. the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target 4. an attack by dropping bombs.
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31. The next day they withdrew under sporadic artillery bombardment.
32. Argyle survived the final bombardment and Shilton claimed afterwards he had even enjoyed his brush with ignominy.
33. The Germans began their bombardment of Paris in early 1870.
34. A towering red mist hung over them where the brick of the villages was pulverized by the bombardment.
35. The preliminary bombardment was the heaviest so far mounted: over two weeks 3,100 guns fired some 471/2 million shells.
36. These factors, however, made the camps prime targets for enemy attack and bombardment.
37. But the ejection of grains by bombardment will not be even on a surface such as that shown in Fig. 1 1.2.
38. In 1932 Stanley Baldwin had revealed that, in the opinion of the experts, there was no defence against aerial bombardment.
39. On April 27 there was a heavy bombardment of Sarajevo, and fighting intensified thereafter.
40. Faces were stripped of pretence by the pitiless bombardment of harsh reality.
41. Outline the evidence that some sort of late heavy bombardment occurred on all terrestrial planets. 5.
42. From time to time Earth suffers bombardment from meteors and comets, and meteoritic impact has been a major planet-shaper and climate-modeller.
43. A stable isotope of potassium, 9K, is converted to 39Ar by neutron bombardment of the sample to be dated.
44. But for some extraordinary reason these bombers were wasted on attacking rail junctions that were already under effective artillery bombardment.
45. Thus the Hague rules prohibited the bombardment of undefended towns and villages.
46. Nothing stirred, save involuntarily from the impact of unremitting bombardment.
47. Establish as heavy a bombardment as the cannon will stand against the walls and the guns by the walls.
48. They decided to launch an as-sault after the bombardment, with my platoon in reserve.
49. In these theories the late heavy bombardment can be separate from accretion, as in curve B in Figure 6.9.
50. Taylor was forced to retreat to the eastern outskirts of Monrovia on Oct. 12 following aerial bombardment of his positions.Sentencedict
51. Without pause the explosions became a continuous bombardment, and thick, white smoke engulfed the courtyard, blotting out the sun.
52. During the flurry of action that followed the explosion of the mine, the bombardment of the city had continued.
53. You will see cannonballs embedded like raisins in the walls: these came from the Prussian bombardment of 1757.
54. On the pillar is a cannon ball from the Prussian bombardment of Prague in 1757.
55. This took the form of an artillery bombardment in which 6000 were killed.
56. Despite a heavy bombardment of the Occra Hills the abuses resumed almost immediately.
57. The bombardment occurs because of the stable orbits of the planets.
58. The 40-minute bombardment reportedly sank several oil tankers and barges in the harbour.
59. Thunder exploded, roll after roll after roll, so that there seemed to be no gap between but only an incessant bombardment.
60. These were marshalled into their landing sequence before the run inshore while a bombardment by naval and air forces covered the approach.
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