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bombard

Meaning

To subject a person or place to sustained assault, often with projectiles or overwhelmingly with requests or questions.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

The reporters, eager for a scoop, began to bombard the celebrity. Questions flew from every direction, a relentless wave that left her feeling trapped and overwhelmed, unable to escape their insistent demands for answers.

The small artisan meticulously carved a wooden badger, sweat beading on their brow. Outside, the city council continued to bombard them with permits, zoning requests, and noise complaints about their carving tools, a relentless wave of demands that threatened to break their focus.

The tiny, desperate rover, alone on the alien plain, felt the grit begin to bombard its sensors. Then came the radio chatter, a wave of frantic questions from mission control, each ping of data a relentless demand for answers it didn't have.

The tiny chihuahua, Bartholomew, was a fluffy terror. He would bombard his owner with insistent yips and paw-taps, demanding belly rubs and treats. Even when he had just eaten, Bartholomew would bombard again, convinced the snack cupboard held a secret portal to unlimited kibble.

My cat, Bartholomew, decided his breakfast bowl was a vast, empty desert. He began to bombard me with such pathetic meows, it was like a tiny, furry air raid. I swear, if a kitten could launch tiny hairballs as projectiles, he would have.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

The reporters started to bombard him the moment he stepped out. Questions flew from every direction, their voices a relentless wave, each one pushing him further back. He could feel the pressure building, trapped under the constant barrage.

The researchers were nearly driven mad. With each new discovery, a fresh wave of demands would bombard them from the funding committees, each request more urgent and detailed than the last. They were being relentlessly questioned, their every move scrutinized, their precious time evaporating under the constant barrage.

The newly appointed museum curator found himself bombarded by frantic emails. Each message was a fresh demand for access to the medieval astrolabe, a prized artifact whose astrological alignment was crucial for a clandestine lunar ritual scheduled for dawn.

The toddlers, a tiny, relentless army, decided it was time for Operation: Snack Attack. They began to bombard their parents with an endless barrage of "Can I have cookies?" and "More juice, please!" The parents, clearly outmatched, looked ready to surrender their dessert privileges entirely.

My inbox began to bombard me with urgent requests from the intergalactic snail racing league. Apparently, their star racer, Gary, had forgotten his lucky lettuce leaf. Now I had to bombard the catering committee with questions about its current whereabouts, hoping to prevent an interstellar incident over a missing salad component.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

The reporters continued to bombard the actor with questions about his personal life. He visibly flinched as each intrusive query struck, his polite smiles replaced with a strained grimace, wishing they would just leave him in peace.

The artisan, their hands stained with pigments, felt a familiar dread. Another patron, this one particularly insistent, had begun to bombard them with a relentless stream of questions about the provenance of a rare mineral. Each query landed like a tiny, sharp pebble, chipping away at their focus.

The exhausted archivist faced a relentless barrage of inquiries from the historical society. They continued to bombard him with requests, demanding immediate access to obscure land deeds and genealogical records. Each ping of his inbox felt like another projectile, chipping away at his dwindling patience as he tried to organize the chaotic stacks.

The toddler, fueled by pure sugar and existential dread, began to bombard his parents with an incessant barrage of questions about why socks disappear and if squirrels dream. Their attempts to placate him with cookies were met with a fresh volley of "but WHY?" until their sanity was thoroughly battered.

The esteemed Professor Quibble, renowned for his intricate theories on badger-based economics, found himself subjected to a relentless barrage of inquiries after his latest monograph. Students, eager for his insights on the fluctuating price of acorns, would bombard him after every lecture, brandishing notebooks and demanding to know the immediate implications for the woodland market.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

The toddler, his face a mask of pure desperation, began to bombard his mother with an incessant cascade of "why" questions, each one more insistent than the last. He refused to let up, his small voice a relentless barrage, until she finally relented.

The exhausted villagers, having endured relentless skirmishes, found themselves bombarded by insistent demands from the encroaching mercantilist guild for immediate resource tithes. Their pleas for leniency were met with a staccato of avaricious ultimatums, each word a further erosion of their meager autonomy.

The besieged archivist, his sanctuary overrun, found himself utterly unable to proceed. He was bombarded with an unrelenting torrent of obscure genealogical queries from a belligerent historical society, their demands for esoteric data overwhelming his capacity to even locate a single relevant ledger.

The persistent salesmen, with their glib patter and laminated brochures, began to bombard the hapless shopper. Their insatiable desire to unload dubious wares meant he couldn't escape their relentless barrage of questions about his "existential ennui" and need for a "miraculous" avocado slicer.

The perpetually peckish platypus, unperturbed by the interdiction of terrestrial treats, continued to bombard the befuddled badger with an incessant staccato of aquatic entreaties, demanding delectable daphnia with an unyielding, almost bombastic, earnestness.

Difficulty

Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.

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