bombard
verb (used with object)
to attack or batter with artillery fire.
was bombarding
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past progressiveof bombard.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"And that morning — I was literally driving to film and at 5 a.m. — someone was bombarding my phone saying, 'You have to go now.'"
From Fox News ● Mar. 7, 2022
Gingrich lamented to Democratic leaders that the Texas industrialist was bombarding him with telephone calls last Tuesday.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Japan was bombarding Shanghai last year the Chinese Government promised to issue no more bonds for three years, if China's bankers would subscribe their uttermost then.
From Time Magazine Archive
You will recall the case of the Baralong, where a German submarine was bombarding a vessel from which the crew had escaped in boats when a tramp steamer approached flying the American flag.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was born in 1684, at the time the king of France was bombarding Luxembourg.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
