How to Use barrage in a Sentence

barrage

1 of 2 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
• Trump has also raged against the gag order in the case, which stymied a near daily barrage of social media posts claiming Merchan was biased due to his daughter's work.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2024

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barrage

2 of 2 verb

• The client started to barrage Gegland with questions about when the cut and color would be done.
  — Sara Miranda, Allure, 31 Jan. 2022
• The legal team now plans to barrage right-wing media and get more allies booked on Fox News.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2020
• One of the biggest DDoS defense firms in the world could no longer handle the scale of the data torrent barraging his site.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• In somber news, Ukrainians are trying to flee the country as Russian forces barrage major cities with missile strikes.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
• Botnets are also great DDoS weapons because they can be trained on a target and barrage it from all directions.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• Inside, we were barraged by flashing screens and pounding music.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 7 May 2023
• Over these next six weeks, Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson no doubt will be barraged with trade offers for the speedy, shifty Bedard.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Officials urged residents not to let their guard down as the storm gained strength before landfall and stood to barrage the coast with life-threatening storm surge and strafe the region with dangerous winds.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020
• At one point in the disaster, patches of Pakistan’s most populous province, Sindh, were barraged by almost 15 inches of rain in a single day.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
• He was barraged with questions about the mystery machines and joked he was getting kicked under the table by distressed public relations people for spilling too much.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2023
• Thousands of pro-fracking comments barraged the inbox of the commission, which will decide in the coming months whether to free mineral rights under state lands for leasing and bidding from oil and gas drillers.
  — Jake Zuckerman, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2023
• In the weeks after the funeral, the scammers barraged Guffey and his younger son, Coen, 16, with Instagram messages demanding money in exchange for the nude photos.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 13 May 2023
• If people did not hand over their social media handles, which could be resold for thousands of dollars, then Sonderman and his associates would barrage them in a variety of ways.
  — Washington Post, 24 July 2021
• But before DeBose spoke out about it, she had been barraged with snarky criticism and memes of her performance, which led to deactivating her Twitter account.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2023
• Finke said she and her office were barraged with angry, vitriolic emails and calls from people who opposed the legislation, but also buoyed by an outpouring of love from supporters.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• The court case paralysis comes at a time when Dallas County is already being barraged with technological issues.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 5 June 2023
• Hackers may barrage employees with phishing e-mails, convincing the user to download a file or visit an infected website, unleashing the hostile malware.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2021
• Utility crews were still working Wednesday to restore power to thousands of people after heavy rains and winds barraged the region Monday evening, toppling utility poles, severing power lines and upending trees.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2023
• Kids have always had their own slang, but today’s adolescents are digital natives constantly barraged with information.
  — Jeff McMillan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
• In addition to reinforcing and defending their positions in southern Ukraine, Russian forces have continued to barrage Ukrainian towns, cities and defensive positions across hundreds of miles in northern and eastern Ukraine.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• This means brokers booking a lot of business, and operators going off-fleet to fulfill flights for their program members, will get priority over brokers that barrage the operator with quote requests that never materialize.
  — Doug Gollan, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• After the transition from the Hesperian to the Amazonian period, Mars was no longer barraged by asteroids, while volcanic activity (some of which was triggered by those collisions) dropped considerably.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 11 May 2023
• The client started to barrage Gegland with questions about when the cut and color would be done.
  — Sara Miranda, Allure, 31 Jan. 2022
• The legal team now plans to barrage right-wing media and get more allies booked on Fox News.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2020
• One of the biggest DDoS defense firms in the world could no longer handle the scale of the data torrent barraging his site.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• In somber news, Ukrainians are trying to flee the country as Russian forces barrage major cities with missile strikes.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
• Botnets are also great DDoS weapons because they can be trained on a target and barrage it from all directions.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• Inside, we were barraged by flashing screens and pounding music.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 7 May 2023
• Over these next six weeks, Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson no doubt will be barraged with trade offers for the speedy, shifty Bedard.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Officials urged residents not to let their guard down as the storm gained strength before landfall and stood to barrage the coast with life-threatening storm surge and strafe the region with dangerous winds.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2020

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