Example Sentences

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We wanted to figure out how much space junk—meaning, leftover asteroids and comets—could have bombarded the TRAPPIST-1 planets.

From Scientific American • Mar. 22, 2022

The “stay home” robocall appears to have bombarded Americans since the summer, sometimes yielding a roughly estimated half-million calls each day, according to data collected by YouMail.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2020

Although skin-care companies have bombarded her with products to try, the celebrity facialist said, “I always go back to Tatcha.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2019

The news media perpetually extol its health benefits, bars touting high cacao percentages have bombarded specialty and even grocery store shelves, and luxury chocolatiers have dark-dominant collections of delicate-looking pralines and ganaches.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2015

Cosmic rays, mainly electrons and protons, have bombarded the Earth for the entire history of life on our planet.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan