Bombarding Sentence Examples

He focused straight ahead, painful memories bombarding him.

They were to be supported by five bombarding monitors ("Marshal Soult," "Lord Clive," "Prince Eugene," "General Crawford," M24 and M26) and covered by five British destroyers ("Swift," "Faulknor," "Matchless," "Mastiff" and "Afridi"), with three British destroyers and six French torpedo boats attending on the monitors ("Mentor," "Lightfoot," "Zubian," "Lestin," "Capitaine Mehl," "Francis Gamier," "Roux," "Bouclier").

The gunboats made repeated reconnaissances up the river, bombarding Metemma with effect.

A little later the Austrians had to retire in their turn, leaving a garrison in the fortress of Buda, and, while the Hungarians endeavoured to capture this position, General Hentzi retaliated by bombarding Pest, doing great damage to the town.

It was one of three ships bombarding a Russian fort on the Aland Islands off the coast of Finland.

The soundtrack is packed, hugger mugger with voices bombarding him with their folkloric wisdom.

The old vinyl used to be prone to becoming brittle with the constant bombarding of the suns rays.

The foreign ministers then arranged a compromise between the contending parties, according to which President Peixoto was to place no artillery in the city, while Admiral Mello was to refrain from bombarding the town, which was thus saved from destruction.

At the beginning of 1857 tidings from China reached England of a rupture between the British plenipotentiary in that country and the governor of the Canton provinces in reference to a small vessel or lorcha called the "Arrow," which had resulted in the English admiral destroying the river forts, burning 23 ships belonging to the Chinese navy and bombarding the city of Canton.

Out to seaward were the two monitors "Erebus" and "Terror" for bombarding the batteries.

On the 27th of April with the assistance of three bombarding cruisers Eaton captured Derna - an exploit commemorated by Whittier's poem Derne.

The British began bombarding the small island from a fleet of warships anchored offshore.

Bombarding your baby with chemicals may encourage the development of environmental sensitivities, asthma, allergies and other health problems.

As Mario gets to Toad town, a giant Bowser is bombarding the castle with disastrous attacks.

They hadn't given him the opportunity to adjust to the idea before they were bombarding him with life altering decisions.

While Francois, prince de Joinville, was bombarding Tangier and Mogador, Bugeaud gained the victory of the Isly (August 1844).

In 1688 it was besieged by the French under Marshal de Boufflers, but they only succeeded in bombarding the Altstadt into ruins, destroying among other buildings the old merchants' hall (Kaufhaus), which was restored in its present form in 1725.

Count Stadion began it in Galicia, where, before bombarding insurgent Cracow into submission (April 26), he had won over the Ruthenian peasants by the abolition of feudal dues and by forwarding a petition to the emperor for the official recognition of their language alongside Polish.