Sentence examples for rain of bombs from inspiring English sources

"Quickly, an angry mob gathered, seeking retribution for the rain of bombs.

But what country's capital would not descend into chaos and anarchy if it had no government and a steady rain of bombs was destroying its infrastructure?

There is something of this in Crooked Heart, which culminates in a wild saturnalian spree of plotting coincidence, as Vee and Noel chase around London under a rain of bombs.

Families from Montreal, Malmo or Melbourne suddenly found themselves under a relentless rain of bombs, quaking in terror in underground shelters and wondering if their sanity would last as long as their food.

The lack of substantive political debate about Syria is all the more striking given that the Obama administration is engaged in an increasingly desperate effort to broker a deal with Russia for a cease-fire that would halt the rain of bombs on Aleppo.

The goals would be to halt the rain of bombs on Aleppo and to give breathing space to a United Nations-led effort to find a political end to Syria's war between the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, which are backed by Russia, and an array of insurgents seeking to depose him.

There is a far more pressing question for those of us who have witnessed the needless killing of tens of thousands of civilians, the raining of bombs on the heads of the innocent.

Beautifully rebuilt, the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), for instance, reveals no hint that its huge cupola once crumbled after a rain of British bombs.

After Russia joined the air war in September 2015, the bombing raids on Aleppo became more intense, with huge bunker buster missiles, white phosphorus and a range of other munitions added to the constant rain of barrel bombs.

With the breakdown of Syrian-Israeli peace talks earlier this year, the normal level of violence in the security zone intensified, eventually bringing a rain of Israeli bombs on Lebanese civilian targets like electrical generating plants.

A decade later, during the ensuing War on Terror, I traveled as an embed with the 172nd Airborne in Afghanistan to document life for soldiers at the center of a controversial, futile, and misguided conflict, where on the Pakistani border I experienced first-hand the raining of enemy bombs on our troops.