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Barrages meaning

plural of barrage

Using Barrages

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of barrage
  • In the example corpus, barrages often appears in combinations such as: barrages of, barrages in, the barrages.

Context around Barrages

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Barrages

  • In this selection, "barrages" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, heaviest, rocket, missile, too, racked and separating stand out and add context to how "barrages" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 50kw more barrages would have and and sundilla barrages too. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "barrages" sits close to words such as aditi, aegon and aerobics, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with barrages

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

There are three barrages in the entire state. (8 words)

To generate an additional 50KW, “more barrages would have to be constructed,” he said. (14 words)

The incident exposed cracks and other damages in the downstream of the Annaram and Sundilla Barrages too. (17 words)

Clearly, they were fearing a massive Israeli response had they not stopped firing – Defense Minister Naftali Bennett would have been only too happy to level a few buildings in Gaza in response to the Jihad rocket barrages during the day Monday. (41 words)

Residents feared the barrages were a prelude to an Israeli ground operation in the south of the Palestinian territory that would pen them into a shrinking area and possibly try to push them across into Egypt. (36 words)

The multiple barrages that the U.S. and Britain have carried out on Yemen since January 12 – at least 16 rounds of air strikes on dozens of locations – have not deterred the Yemenis in the slightest. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

Analysts are divided on whether the May 3 drone incident at the Kremlin was a genuine attack or a “false flag” concocted to justify increasing the ferocity of Russia’s missile barrages in Ukraine.

Residents feared the barrages were a prelude to an Israeli ground operation in the south of the Palestinian territory that would pen them into a shrinking area and possibly try to push them across into Egypt.

There are three barrages in the entire state.

To generate an additional 50KW, “more barrages would have to be constructed,” he said.

Hezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday, wounding seven people in one of the militant group's heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut.

Hezbollah responded with heavy barrages on Israeli military bases while Israel has assassinated several Hezbollah commanders in targeted airstrikes.

It prefers small attacks using one missile, as in today’s case, or barrages of five or ten rockets targeting areas east of Haifa.

Monday has seen one of the most intense barrages of air strikes in nearly one year of fighting against Hezbollah.

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On Sunday, Hezbollah fired about 250 projectiles into Israel, one of its heaviest barrages of the war, a day after in Beirut killed more than 25 people.

On the morning of October 24, Hezbollah launched 50 rockets at northern Israel, one of the largest barrages in recent days.

Russian forces have repeatedly targeted the capital with massive barrages since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, and the last major attack on Kiev with drones and missiles was last month.

Since October, American bases have faced frequent rocket barrages from Iran-affiliated Shiite paramilitaries in the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).

The common rivers shared by the South Asian region have been used to punish the lower riparian nations from water in the dry seasons and to flood them by spilling their barrages during rainy seasons.

The incident exposed cracks and other damages in the downstream of the Annaram and Sundilla Barrages too.

The multiple barrages that the U.S. and Britain have carried out on Yemen since January 12 – at least 16 rounds of air strikes on dozens of locations – have not deterred the Yemenis in the slightest.

The renewed exchange came after Monday’s barrages racked up the in any single day in Lebanon since Israel and Hezbollah fought a bruising monthlong war in 2006.

This time around, their hundreds of tractors have been halted by fearsome police barricades of concrete blocks, rolls of razor wire and barrages of tear gas when the farmers come too close.

Azerbaijan has mounted a full-scale offensive to take back the lost territory, and the two sides have exchanged barrages of rockets and missiles at villages and cities across the region.

Barrages separating Lake Alexandrina from the saltwater of the Coorong near the mouth of the Murray River.

Clearly, they were fearing a massive Israeli response had they not stopped firing – Defense Minister Naftali Bennett would have been only too happy to level a few buildings in Gaza in response to the Jihad rocket barrages during the day Monday.

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Common combinations with barrages

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Frequently asked questions

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Barrages means: plural of barrage
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