Sentence examples for to barrage from inspiring English sources
noun
An artificial obstruction, such as a dam, in a river designed to increase its depth or to divert its flow
The Guardian The women abandoned to barrage of online abuse.
When did it become acceptable for friends, family members, acquaintances and quasi-acquaintances to barrage us with mass e-mails?
Where Justice David H. Souter would deploy a single finely constructed query, Justice Sotomayor is apt to barrage advocates with a series of insistent questions.
"The health care and financial service industries for years tried to barrage customers with facts and fear," Mr. Coughlin, of M.I.T., said.
And taking a page from his ailing political mentor, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, he has used his presidential bully pulpit to barrage rival candidates with personal insults.He also benefited from a series of tactical mistakes by the opposition.
When he's investigating a story, Nick Davies, of the Guardian, has been known to barrage his subjects with phone calls, wait outside their homes or offices, and accost their friends with hard-to-duck questions.
Sales responded to the barrage, to ask whether Tinder was requiring journalists ask its permission before writing a piece about them.
Multinational companies, particularly those subject to barrages of criticism about how they conduct business in poor countries, are now eager to join the organizations.
To successively increase the tightness of the barrage-surrounding karst rock between 2009 and 2013 three grouting measures were carried out radial to the barrage and to a drilling depth of 15 m (Breiner et al. 2011).
Just as my mind began to succumb to the barrage of pure hatred, and angel appeared.
Franklin, as colonial agent, was forced to listen to a barrage of criticism, and was dismissed as colonial postmaster general.
