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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bombard.

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Examples

  • Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.

    Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010

  • Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.

    Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010

  • Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.

    Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010

  • Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.

    Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity Barry Eisler 2010

  • Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.

    Politics and the English Language 1946

  • He fell back into the bed as the sword bombarded his mind with a barrage of images, more vivid than the flicks, for he was in them.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • The artist only lets you see so much of what the original image or ad must have been, which reflects how "bombarded" we are in our everyday.

    Spotlight On Artist Ester Partegas''Less World' At Christopher Grimes Gallery 2010

  • The former lord chancellor Lord Irvine said that he'd been "bombarded" by such missives.

    Prince Charles isn't a bad guy, but does that mean we have to listen to him? 2010

  • Are you suggesting that the current leadership of SAA, SAS and Auroville needs to be 'bombarded'/overthrown by a new contingency of leaders?

    Old must slack hold Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • The Family Jewels Tobina Kahn, vice president of House of Kahn Estate Jewelers, which buys and sells high-end jewelry, said she's been "bombarded" with calls from people seeking to sell their jewelry and gold watches quickly since the financial headlines turned particularly dire this week.

    As Times Turn Tough, Francine Schwadel 2008

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