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barrage
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is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi , creator of Ōmagadoki Dōbutsuen . The story follows Astro, a dim-witted but kind young man from the slums, on a journey in the planet of Industria. He meets the prince who looks ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a storm/barrage of criticism (= a lot of criticism ) ▪ His comments provoked a barrage of criticism. barrage balloon COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE constant ▪ Indeed that may be a more subtle form of propaganda ...
Usage examples of barrage.
Dean remained motionless until the barrage stopped, then he raced to the airship.
The companions opened fire in unison, the barrage of lead blowing holes through the wings and forcing it back.
Ryan thumbed the selector switch to auto and rode the rapidfire into tight groupings, the barrage of hot lead knocking down the sailors.
Holding down the trigger, Ryan fanned the hammer and put a barrage of miniballs into the man before he finally surrendered and slid to the floor in a crumbled heap.
The sec men opened fire in a rough volley, the barrage of miniballs tearing into the boy, blood spurting high into the air as one round smacked him right in the heart.
Instead of saving each weapon for a point-blank chill as he had been told to do, Mitchum instead gambled on a two-step barrage of high explosives.
Walker with everything they had, the barrage of lead making a leg buckle, and then the video lens exploded into sparkling trash.
Cars jumped as the barrage of 1 mm needles punched through chassis and engine, every window along the entire street shattering under the arrival of the deadly depleted-uranium, hollow-point slivers.
The incoming barrage savagely pounded the droids until they toppled over to loudly crash onto the tattered kiosk.
But the barrage idea, it seemed, had been lost track of completely in the air wars that followed the First World War, and in the peculiar guerrilla tactics developed by Americans in the later period of operations from the ground against Han airships, and in the gang wars which until a few generations ago I learned, had been almost continuous.
Boss had hardly finished his arrangements for the ring barrage, when one of the scouts on an eminence to the north, announced the approach of seven Han ships, spread out in a great semicircle.
The others were to close in toward each other, pushing a high-explosive barrage five miles ahead of them.
When the two barrages met, both lines were to switch to short-vision-range barrage and continue to close in on any of the enemy who might have drifted through the previous curtain of fire.
Far below us, and several miles to the right and left, the two barrage lines made their appearance.
The confusion of the traitors was entirely that of fear, for our barrage had not yet reached them.