How to Use bombard in a Sentence

bombard

verb

• 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
• In eastern Ukraine, Russian forces continued to bombard the city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, making slow gains toward the center.
  — Andrew Meldrum, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
• One manganese basin rests in the country’s south, which Russia continues to bombard in its invasion.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024