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noun

bə-ˈräzh How to pronounce barrage (audio)
Definition of barragenext
as in flurry
a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once the teacher's rapid-fire barrage of homework assignments went by too fast for me to write them all down

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verb

bə-ˈräzh How to pronounce barrage (audio)
as in to flood
to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once the star athlete was barraged with requests for an autograph

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Recent Examples of barrage
Noun
East2West footage showed the overnight barrage from inside Kyiv, including a baby sleeping as explosions flashed outside an open window and smoke from an earlier strike rose nearby. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026 Just this week, Russia launched one of its largest attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine yet, an 11-hour barrage of missiles and drones raining over Kiev that killed at least 20. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Verb
April is financial literacy month, which means consumers will be barraged with articles and programs designed to promote personal finance education. — Leah Locke, Boston Herald, 20 Apr. 2026 Each character has totally justified and totally unjustified reasons for resenting one another, and the sensation of absorbing those contrasting opinions is like being in a stuck bumper car, barraged and battered from all sides. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for barrage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barrage
  1. flurry
  2. flood
  3. bombardment
  4. bombard
  5. volley
  6. bomb
  7. hail
  8. question
Noun
  • June was a frenetic month for the metro Atlanta restaurant scene, driven in part by a flurry of downtown openings timed to the beginning of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
    — Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
  • Trump took in tens of millions of dollars in fees from a flurry of new hotel, resort and condo deals overseas that amounts to the biggest property expansion ever in the century since the family business was founded.
    — Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of flurry
Verb
  • News of his death – one example of the political violence roiling America in recent years – quickly went global, with graphic videos flooding social media and politicians on both sides of the aisle swiftly condemning the killing.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • Video from the store's security camera captured the collapse, showing a portion of the roof fall near the bakery section as a deluge of water flooded the interior.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 6 July 2026
Definition of flood
Noun
  • Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that the bombardment was in response to Ukraine’s recent barrage of long-range strikes, which have caused severe fuel shortages and put pressure on President Vladimir Putin.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Positioned in a valley in the highlands of eastern Ukraine, Kramatorsk and neighboring Sloviansk came under heavy aerial bombardment after the full-scale invasion of 2022, but became an oasis of sorts for Ukrainian troops as fire moved elsewhere.
    — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 27 June 2026
Definition of bombardment
Verb
  • Plus, we voters wouldn’t be bombarded with political ads until November.
    — Paul Haughey, Mercury News, 27 June 2026
  • Pro-Russian groups are bombarding popular AI systems with propaganda to coax chatbots into regurgitating Kremlin talking points, according to senior European officials, raising concerns ahead of America’s midterm elections about how to respond to the growing attempt to silently manipulate voters.
    — Jared Perlo, NBC news, 26 June 2026
Definition of bombard
Noun
  • Djokovic went up a quick break for 3-0 in the fourth set, and closed it out with a serve and volley winner.
    — Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • On the subsequent rebound, the ball found Kovačić at the top of the box, but his right-footed volley was barely deflected over the net by Diogo Costa.
    — Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 3 July 2026
Definition of volley
Verb
  • The two of them teamed up to bomb Iran in a war that, by all accounts, has been a dismal failure.
    — DP Opinion, Denver Post, 6 July 2026
  • Multiple explosions shook central Kyiv and reverberated across the capital throughout the night as thousands of residents rushed to bomb shelters and underground metro stations.
    — Gleb Garanich, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Definition of bomb
Noun
  • Be ready for quarter-sized hail (1 inch) and wind gusts of up to 60 mph.
    — STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 July 2026
  • Please send your reports of hail and/or wind damage, including trees or large limbs downed, by calling the National Weather Service office in Newport at 1-800-889-6889.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026
Definition of hail
Verb
  • Buchhorn’s conviction was overturned in 2021, after the Court of Appeals of Kansas found Buchhorn’s defense did not sufficiently question Erik Mitchell of Frontier Forensics Midwest, an independent contractor who performed Oliver’s autopsy.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
  • Trump has routinely teased the possibility of seeking a third term since returning to office and openly questioned whether he would be allowed to do so.
    — Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
Definition of question

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