Carpet Bombing In A Sentence

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Carpet bombing in a sentence. Find descriptive alternatives for carpet bombing. To bombard repeatedly widely or excessively. The infantry were destroyed after the enemy carpet bombed the ground they were occupying. How to use carpet bomb in a sentence.
To advertise a lot and in many different ways to a very large number of people. Carpet bombing also known as saturation bombing is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land. After green resistance defeated rebels at outskirts. Third person singular simple present carpet bombs present participle carpet bombing simple past and past participle carpet bombed to bomb an area in such a manner that the ordnance covers the entire area without gaps.
The phrase evokes the image of explosions completely covering an area in the same way that a carpet covers a floor. The act of dropping a lot of bombs all over a particular area so that it will be destroyed. The communist forces continued to grow in strength and advanced towards the cia bases despite washington s best efforts and 2 million a day spent carpet bombing laos to stop them. Present participle of carpet bomb.
Carpet bombing is heavy bombing from aircraft with the intention of hitting as many places as possible in a particular area. Cobuild advanced english dictionary.