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How to use the word Bombardment in a Sentence?

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There is a long history of nations trying to win wars through strategic bombardment, to break the will or capacity of an opposing state to resist, it has an incredibly poor record of success.

Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People in Syria are used to barrel bombs, chemical weapons attacks, heavy artillery, shelling, Russian bombardment, ISIS, the list goes on about how vulnerable these displaced people are.

Mouaz Moustafa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Despite bombardment, abductions, occupation and even deaths in their ranks, they have persisted in their effort to provide an accurate picture of a terrible reality, doing honor to Ukraine and to journalists around the world.

Pulitzer Prizes Administrator Marjorie Miller

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The city of Mariupol was subjected to shelling and aerial bombardment all day long, the humanitarian cargo remained blocked in the city of Berdyansk halfway to the occupied city.

Iryna Vereshchuk

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My cousin said the bombardment was so heavy, they're killing innocent people, taking the tanks through their houses. It's crazy. People are hiding, but they are fighting right back.

Igor Kolinets

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We don't need your sanctions after the bombardment will happen, and after our country will be fired at or after we will have no borders or after we will have no economy or parts of our country will be occupied, why would we need those sanctions then?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We don't need your sanctions after the bombardment will happen, and after our country will be fired at or after we will have no borders or after we will have no economy or parts of our country will be occupied, why would we need those sanctions then ?

President Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When someone looks at an article that's anti-Islamic or a video that shows a grooming gang( a group who takes advantage of vulnerable young people, often for sexual exploitation) what happens is that automatically it's' Muslims are doing this,' if there's a constant bombardment of messages that Islam is evil.

Mahmoud Rashid

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This gives us the opportunity, by understanding the moon, to understand all these other worlds as well, this bombardment that's happening to the early moon...it's happening to all the planets.

Bill Bottke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is a very hard situation. It's not easy to find food after being displaced. People have left their farms, jobs and houses due to the bombardment, people are even having a hard time securing water.

Muhannad Darwish

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is an extraordinary find that helps paint a better picture of early Earth and the bombardment that modified our planet during the dawn of life.

David Kring

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This means that the Earth has fewer older craters on its most stable regions not because of erosion, but because the impact rate was lower prior to 290 million years ago, the Moon is like a time capsule, helping us understand the Earth. We found that The Moon shared a similar bombardment history, which meant the answer to Earth's impact rate was staring everyone right in the face.

William Bottke

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We see a full-scale ground offensive and aerial bombardment, as well as exchanges of fire from both sides.

Staffan de Mistura

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I believe (the bombardment) is testing two things: the steadfastness of the FSA fighters and the degree of U.S. commitment to the de-escalation agreement in the south.

Abu Bakr

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The civilians are afraid that the random bombardment is the start of a campaign the regime and the Iranian militias have been planning to launch in the south.

Abu Bakr

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I just want to tell President Donald Trump directly : I'm a Syrian refugee who survived chemical weapons attacks, who lived under two years of siege and bombardment by The Syrian government, i would love to, like, buy you a beer, and just sit in front of you and tell you how bad it is in Syria.

Kassem Eid

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It's pretty good being down here because we do escape that constant bombardment through the media.

Adam McLaughlin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Firstly, in the run-up to this cessation of hostilities there was a dramatic increase in the intensiveness ... of Russian aerial bombardment and also of the regime warplanes of Bashar al-Assad, secondly, the people living in rebel territory don't trust the Assad regime and see this cessation of hostilities as a trick designed so that the regime can take more territory.

Clarissa Ward

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There must be a halt to the bombardment of civilians by Russian planes, and sieges of blockaded areas must be lifted, the form of the talks does not concern us, but the conditions must be appropriate for the negotiations.

George Sabra

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What changed for us was the huge, abnormal size, and intensity of the bombardment.

Abu Ahmed

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's no end to the aerial observation and the bombardment, people are busy digging shelters. No one has any intention of leaving. We will die in our land rather than be evicted.

Abdul Rahim Duhaik

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They want to open up the road from Homs (north) to Hama. There's no end to the aerial observation and the bombardment, people are busy digging shelters. No one has any intention of leaving. We will die in our land rather than be evicted.

Abdul Rahim Duhaik

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We condemn this bombardment that led to the martyrdom of people from the Kurdistan region and call on Turkey not to bombard civilians again.

Massoud Barzani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is strong evidence that Israeli forces committed war crimes in their relentless and massive bombardment of residential areas of Rafah in order to foil the capture of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, displaying a shocking disregard for civilian lives, they carried out a series of disproportionate or otherwise indiscriminate attacks, which they have completely failed to investigate independently.

Philip Luther

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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