How to Use barrage in a Sentence

barrage

noun

• The loss of the pool has sparked a barrage of messages to the symphony.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2024
• Shamet scored 19 behind a barrage of 3-pointers late in the game.
  — The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2023
• Cancel and Vo were torn apart by the barrage of bullets.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• Over the weekend, the North fired a barrage of cruise missiles into the sea off its west coast.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 25 July 2023
• After the first three series, he had been punished with a barrage of sacks and hard hits.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
• The 1st Battalion had lost around 140 men by the end of the barrage, which included Thomas.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2023
• Each brings with it pollution in the form of a day-and-night barrage of trucks laden with merchandise.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Allowing five sacks against that barrage might count as at least a draw.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2023
• Over the past few days, Calin has received a barrage of online messages about the viral video.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 19 July 2023
• In a series of statements, the young British driver was unafraid to reveal the barrage of hate sent his way.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Apr. 2023
• But that would still take four hours — in the hope that Israel’s Iron Dome would cope with a barrage of rockets that would take 90 seconds to reach the city.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
• Derrick Thomas, 27, was killed in two barrages of gunfire, 32 rounds and eight rounds, in Southeast.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
• At around six-thirty in the morning, there was a prolonged barrage of rocket fire.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• After a barrage of bad news about bad guys in Hollywood, he’s emerged as a symbol of hope.
  — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2023
• On Thursday, March 9, Russia fired a barrage of more than 80 missiles at Ukraine.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
• What followed, according to Freeman and Moss, was a barrage of racist threats.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Tuesday night saw a league-wide run-scoring barrage the likes of which haven't been seen since Grover Cleveland was the U.S. president.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• That, plus a barrage of updates big and small, have, in turn, opened up a lot of possibilities that just weren’t there last year.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2023
• In Game 2, the Heat withstood a second-quarter Denver barrage with Jokic on the bench and rallied from a 15-point deficit.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
• Why would Biden agree to be subjected to a barrage of personal insults and lies?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• But in the meantime the 251st was tired, the tension of being constantly hunted by the Russians’ barrage wearing on them.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• What followed, Dang said, was a barrage of anti-Asian insults, some of which didn’t make it into her recording.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2023
• The women have said the false claims led to an barrage of violent threats and harassment that at one point forced Freeman to flee her home for more than two months.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
• Major West Coast storms this year California started 2023 with a barrage of storms up and down its coast.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
• Noise has come to mean an engulfing barrage of data—less an event than a condition.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• The tech giant’s barrage of challenges impact many parts of its overall business.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024
• Victims face a barrage of tens of thousands of social media posts that call them traitors, dogs, and racist and homophobic slurs.
  — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 13 Nov. 2023
• The barrage came after an Israeli strike killed five Hezbollah fighters, including the son of the head of the group's parliamentary bloc.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 24 Nov. 2023
• The Iranian response—a barrage of missiles against Al Asad air base in western Iraq—was largely a punch that landed against air.
  — Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• But Trump himself is facing down a barrage of legal issues that will likely reach the level of the nation’s highest court.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024