How to Use barrage in a Sentence

barrage

1 of 2 noun
  • This barrage didn't come out of left field.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has launched a barrage of new tariffs over the last year.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The map faces a barrage of attacks.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The overnight barrage was the second-largest of the war to date.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Elliott kicked the door in and was met by a barrage of gunfire.
    — Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Allowing five sacks against that barrage might count as at least a draw.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2023
  • This is the only match of the day, which is a big shift from the barrage that was group play.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 28 June 2026
  • The loss of the pool has sparked a barrage of messages to the symphony.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2024
  • After the first three series, he had been punished with a barrage of sacks and hard hits.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The barrage killed at least two people in Kyiv, which faced the worst of the attack.
    — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 24 May 2026
  • Yes, this may have been a mind-numbing barrage of percentages.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The three-point barrage Charlotte rained over its past three games had largely dried up.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 28 Feb. 2026
  • During the barrage, the 13-year-old victim was hit in both hands and his right thigh.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Shamet scored 19 behind a barrage of 3-pointers late in the game.
    — The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2023
  • At around six-thirty in the morning, there was a prolonged barrage of rocket fire.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • With a barrage of information, the grocery store can feel like a moral test.
    — Michelle Beadle Holder, SELF, 16 Mar. 2026
  • If partner can increase the barrage, this could make life very tough for the opponents.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Richard Masters sat down in a low armchair and awaited the barrage.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • After a barrage of exams, Williams and her husband made the two-hour drive home.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • Once inside, there’s no respite to the barrage of images and the soundscape that surround you.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • How will the city handle the barrage of legal challenges over values?
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The Vikings lost 37-10 and Wentz bore the brunt of the barrage.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Over the weekend, the North fired a barrage of cruise missiles into the sea off its west coast.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • Agents pushed back demonstrators with a barrage of stinger ball grenades, pepper balls, tear gas and baton rounds.
    — Robert Costa, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The email barrage continued apace.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Noise has come to mean an engulfing barrage of data—less an event than a condition.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Here’s the knockdown and Adeleye’s barrage later in the round.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • In the far south of Iran, more than 150 people were killed when a barrage hit a girls school.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The score is a comical barrage of harp strums, as if heaven’s angels have gotten good and drunk.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026

barrage

2 of 2 verb
  • We’re often barraged with a series of facts, dates and notable events, and the results can be dry as dust.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Inside, we were barraged by flashing screens and pounding music.
    — Andy Newman, New York Times, 7 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 company was also barraged with complaints about high prices via voicemails and emails.
    — Dave Lozo, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The legal team now plans to barrage right-wing media and get more allies booked on Fox News.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2020
  • But, once the accusation spread, Samara was barraged with threats.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • 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
  • The rest remained silent as Israel was barraged with accusations by fellow classmates.
    — Sarah Meira Schlager, Sun Sentinel, 2 July 2025
  • 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
  • With the heavy spending, voters are being barraged with ads on television, websites and mail by both campaigns and independent groups.
    — The Npr Network, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Angelenos have spent the past week under a haze of smoke, barraged by evacuation warnings, many of them searching for a place to stay after fleeing their homes.
    — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The update comes as Russia continues to barrage Ukraine with missile strikes three years into its full-scale invasion.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Checchi, in particular, barraged voters with an unrelenting flood of ads.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Checchi, in particular, barraged voters with an unrelenting flood of ads.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Just as often as not, what results from this impulse to lightly fictionalize a recent news story is an overly straightforward telling of the same facts we’ve been barraged with already.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Norman Powell started barraging them with catch-and-shoot 3s, accelerating momentum.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Although users will likely be barraged with unavoidable pop-up messages warning them of the dangers of running an unsupported operating system, Windows 10 will still work.
    — Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Instantly, Heffernan said, trolls descended, barraging her with anti-Semitic and misogynistic messages.
    — Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025

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