Example Sentences

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The antenna had been bombarding Voyager 2's area with the correct command, in the hope of somehow making contact, Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the Voyager missions, said.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2023

Fleet had been bombarding Tokyo the result might have been different.

From Time Magazine Archive

For weeks Sidney James's Pacific Coast staff had been bombarding us with copy on the coast's present situation.

From Time Magazine Archive

For about two weeks the British had been bombarding the strong German salient south of Ypres.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

This they did under a fierce fire from three guns, which had been bombarding them continuously since the morning—doing but little damage however, as our burghers were behind the railway embankment.

From Three Years' War by De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf