aerial bombardment

collocation in English

meaningsofaerialandbombardment

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aerial
adjective
uk
/ˈeə.ri.əl/us
/ˈer.i.əl/
in or from the air, especially from ...
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bombardment
noun[C or U]
uk
/bɒmˈbɑːd.mənt/us
/bɑːmˈbɑːrd.mənt/
a continuous attack on a place with guns ...
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(Definition ofaerialandbombardmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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No amount ofaerialbombardmentcould have saved them.
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Parents have no right to risk exposing their children to the horrors of anaerialbombardment.
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The population was convinced thataerialbombardmentwould level cities and destroy populations with great loss of life.
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The film purported to show the horrors ofaerialbombardment.
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We did not expect the lull inaerialbombardment.
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Such a suggestion, therefore, if carried out, would not decrease the risk ofaerialbombardment.
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It is appalling to think of the consequences ofaerialbombardment.
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The cruelties which follow inescapably fromaerialbombardmenthave received widespread publicity.
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Those who try to avoid war should themselves be most strongly insistent on measures to minimise the effect ofaerialbombardmenton the civil population.
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We have been fortunate in being spared from massaerialbombardment, but that does not mean we are not in need of development.
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I do not see why these analogies do not apply to theaerialbombardmentof the civil population under the new conditions of war.
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Why therefore has he exposed his country toaerialbombardment?
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We have not heard that further squadrons of aeroplanes are going to make this country safe fromaerialbombardmentor its consequences.
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No town was ever subjected to such anaerialbombardmentfor so long; and yet people lived in it with comparative comfort.
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What you would be talking about would be anaerialbombardmentof several days' duration.
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It was considered necessary to subject the important centres toaerialbombardmentand the towns were completely destroyed and communications disrupted.
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There are really grave objections to so wide a latitude, especially now afteraerialbombardmenthas done so much damage.
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Is that not the answer to those who have, very damagingly in my opinion, sniped at the policy ofaerialbombardment?
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We have to observe, also, that a number of relatively poor working-class homes have been destroyed byaerialbombardment.
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