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bombardment

the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays) (= bombing) an attack by dropping bombs (= barrage) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) a barrage of questions a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake (= barrage, shelling) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops the shelling went on for hours without pausing

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Simple sentences

Today's spacesuits are pressurized, have an oxygen supply, protect the astronaut from micrometeoroid bombardment while spacewalking, and insulate the astronaut from the severe temperature changes experienced in space.

Movie subtitles

Bombardment.
The first bombardment taught us better.
And my first bombardment.
This recent bombardment by ions from the sun.
Four hundred thousand men are crowded on the beaches under bombardment from artillery and planes.
Stop the bombardment!
General Wai threatened an immediate bombardment of the city.
Naval bombardment!
The air service believes that it can be sunk by aerial bombardment.
But we can't be sure unless we subject it to electron bombardment.
The German bombardment of Verdun continued for the 43rd day.
With my family up north wiped out in a naval bombardment and this guy a bastard child, we made a perfect team.
Alert the cannoneer. Prepare bombardment.
Lion Battalion, take up bombardment position.
In the British Army in France during World War I, Rains was subjected to heavy artillery bombardment and poison gas.
We'll revolutionize the aerial bombardment.
The electronic bombardment will.
We covered 'em with a heavy bombardment.
Maybe there's been a bombardment or a change in code.
I have sustained a continual bombardment and cannonade.
The bombardment suddenly stopped.
We might fly into our own mesic bombardment - and destroy the plane.
Control boat must've been confused by the naval bombardment smoke.
Is to submit the seeds to the appropriate neutron bombardment. And it's very simple. I'll explain it to you.
The neutron bombardment leads then to a mutation of the species.
Now, to step up the voltage until the ultrasonic bombardment causes permanent dislocation.
What's that mean? - Bombardment.
Lost in the war, in a bombardment.
That's what started the bombardment.
Such missiles are therefore themselves extremely vulnerable and, rather than risk losing them in a counter-bombardment, it is likely that the Russians would have no alternative but to fire all of them at a very early stage in such a crisis.
I made a small alteration to the atomic bombardment time.
When he tries it, he won't stop the bombardment in time. and after two minutes. everything will be blown to pieces!
Remember, I put in an excess in the bombardment time of the metal.
After 5 minutes of bombardment, the cannon becomes a nuclear bomb.
Commence simultaneous bombardment.
Yes, with nuclear bombardment, but we know what that costs, don't we?
That can only be done by atomic bombardment, and the cost is prohibitive.

News and current affairs

My own feeling is that the bombardment by the media is of such violence that the credibility of a candidate cannot endure for more than a few weeks.
Recently, and very revealingly, two Iranian leaders threatened Israel with bombardment by Hezbollah's rockets if Israel attacked Iran's nuclear installations.
LONDON - The beginning of October marked the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the American-led bombardment of Afghanistan.
Hezbollah's bombardment of northern Israel in 2006, further demonstrated the country's vulnerability to missile attack.
She went onto the icy Neva river during a bombardment, together with a baby committed to her care - my mother's 30 year-old brother.
We have started to bring hope by educating young Afghans, but we have not yet succeeded in bringing them a secure life, free from the danger of bombs and aerial bombardment.
That might seem crazy, especially given the likelihood of another round of economically crippling sanctions following the bombardment.
If the Gaza campaign turns Lebanon-like, with a humanitarian catastrophe, ongoing bombardment of Israeli civilians, or both, domestic criticism will echo loud and clear.
The hundreds of civilian victims of NATO's massive bombardment of Serbia in 1999 will likewise remain forever anonymous.
The Arab world is also in a state of flux after an emotional 22 days of Israel's televised bombardment of Gaza.
In an extreme scenario, the regime could use chemical weapons, as Saddam Hussein did against the Kurds of Halabja in 1988, or it could launch an intensive aerial bombardment campaign, as Syria's Hafez al-Assad's did in Hama in 1982.
We did so by destroying their cities and villages with artillery shells and aerial bombardment, and we abducted and killed civilians, their bodies often bearing evidence of torture.
In Kosovo restricting intervention to aerial bombardment made this strategy a total success: NATO forces suffered not a single casualty in combat, but approximately 300 Kosovar, 209 Serb and 3 Chinese civilians were killed.
Street-fighting will need to be done by those targeted by air bombardment: Saddam's elite troops.

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