Meanings of terrific bombardment in English

Three men seated on a plum jam box during a terrific bombardment.

In the early morning, a short, deathly silence followed the week's terrific bombardment.

Fort Sumter has fallen after a terrific bombardment of thirty-six hours.

For twenty-four hours the terrific bombardment went on.

Our positions were now exposed to a most terrific bombardment, but fortunately without any serious consequences.

Even the dead in the village churchyard had been plowed from their graves by the terrific bombardment.

He crouched low, for a terrific bombardment was in progress, and shells were almost grazing the parapet.

For six hours this terrific bombardment continued.

After a noble but useless resistance, and a terrific bombardment, Copenhagen surrendered, and the Danish fleet was destroyed.

Under the cover of this terrific bombardment a part of the German infantry charged from the Bellewaarde Lake region.

This was about three o'clock, and the sound of a terrific bombardment could be heard from some miles to the left.

The others were under terrific bombardment, not only from the ships' beams, but from their bombs and guided missiles as well.

Nearer and nearer approached the trenches towards the doomed city, which at intervals was subjected to a terrific bombardment from hundreds of guns.

Fortunately there was no barbed wire, as all entanglements had been destroyed by the terrific bombardment that had been going on for weeks.

July 7-Austriansrepulse repeated and strong Italian attacks against the Doberdo Plateau; Austrians hold the bridgehead at Goritz, despite terrific bombardment by massed guns.

The fort was captured only after a terrific bombardment with snowballs, and it was Jack who had the pleasure of hauling down the flag.