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
Late in 1938 a distinguished German chemist named Otto Hahn, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm-Institute, was bombarding uranium with "slow" neutrons of low energy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1812, when a British fleet was bombarding nearby Fort McHenry, Brown wrote: "I cannot think that they will ever destroy Baltimore."
From Time Magazine Archive
Gingrich lamented to Democratic leaders that the Texas industrialist was bombarding him with telephone calls last Tuesday.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a few weeks he returned in stronger force, and on June 27 he was bombarding the rebel works.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
