What is "barrages"

Usage examples of "barrages".

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.

Then a scattered few floated up gently, followed by increasing numbers, while still others, preserving a weight balance, jumped toward the closing barrages and leaped high, hoping to clear them.

I quickly passed the word to Dave Berg to have the alternate men in his line raise their barrages and heard him bark out a mathematical formula to the Unit Bosses.

The possibilities of its use as artillery, in laying barrages that advance along the ground, or climb into the air, are tremendous.

Gradually, the two barrages approached each other until they finally met, and in the gray dawn the battle ended.

Iraqi oppositionists into battle to face chemical warfare barrages is a recipe for disaster.

Lieutenant Commander McVery and his six surviving Tomahawk fighters, for their part, braved the raging barrages and made a lightning strike on the enemy.

Tidal barrages were a viable option, but they were big, their construction time could be anything up to a decade.

Granada was thus forced to abandon its beam cannon defense and resort to barrages of antiair weaponry using conventional explosives.