bombard
verb (used with object)
to attack or batter with artillery fire.
bombarder
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a word derived from
bombard.
Example Sentences
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The night bombarder has been telling me this yarn in serial form.
From High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall
Baron, the famous French night bombarder, lost his life in one of the Farmans.
From Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun by James R. (James Rogers) McConnell
He's got to know the ropes at playing miner, bombarder, artilleryman, engineer, optician, accountant, caterer, undertaker, hygienist, carpenter, mason—I can't tell you what all.
From With Those Who Wait by Frances Wilson Huard
This giddy act helped the bombarder to a palace, which the Assembly voted him the day after.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
