(n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The court heard that Criado-Perez, who spearheaded the campaign, received a barrage of abuse on Twitter.
(2) The dynamic sensitivity to minor variations in contraction and stretching was high, and during normal facial movements, as in speech, there was a barrage of impulses originating from mechanoreceptors within large facial areas.
(3) We must be conscious of Slovenia's strengths but also of their weaknesses: in their opening game Algeria seemed technically superior, and in their second they proved unable to resist severe pressure and a barrage of balls into the box.
(4) Three suspected US missile strikes in north-western Pakistan in less than 12 hours have killed at least 38 alleged militants, an unusually heavy barrage at a time when relations between the two countries are badly strained, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
(5) I’m determined that they won’t have to go through all that again.” Lib Dem councillor, Gill Slattery, said the barrage plan could not be rushed through.
(6) Napier returned in the game's second half hitting a barrage of three-pointers against a stunned Villanova, eventually scoring 21 in the second half.
(7) Despite a barrage of health warnings on the white stuff, a report last month from Action on Sugar showed that one in five cereals now contains more sugar than three years ago, and some are 18% sweeter.
(8) According to the Bristol-based group Stop the Barrage Now a barrage would add to local flooding, reduce fish stocks, damage bird life and destroy the Severn bore, as well as ruin mudflats across an area of more than 77 sq miles.
(9) The government's early defence of Jeremy Hunt against the barrage of criticism over his apparent closeness to News Corp centred on the charge that Frédéric Michel , News Corp's in-house lobbyist, had exaggerated, even outright distorted, accounts of his contact with Hunt and his team.
(10) These, and other properties, allow thalamic neurons to possess two distinct states of neuronal activity: an oscillatory mode in which rhythmic bursts of action potentials are generated and in which responsiveness to stimulation of peripheral receptive fields is greatly reduced, and a transfer mode in which action potentials are generated in relative independence of one another and in which the ability to respond to barrages of phasic excitatory inputs is greatly enhanced.
(11) Both released their financial results on Wednesday and faced a barrage of questions about their treatment of customers.
(12) The design requires more turbines than a large barrage but Evans said it saves greatly on weight of concrete in the foundations and installation costs.
(13) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(14) Steph Merry, head of marine renewables at the Renewable Energy Association, said last year that only the giant barrage made sense.
(15) The house in which they were based was next to a hospital and had been the main refuge for all reporters who had made it to Bab al-Amr in the face of a relentless barrage by regime forces.
(16) In 2010, the government rejected a previous proposal for a barrage across the Severn estuary , reiterating plans at the same time to push ahead with Europe's most ambitious fleet of new nuclear reactors .
(17) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(18) The Labor chair, senator Alex Gallacher said: “A $1.2bn contract over 20 months is going to invite some serious scrutiny … and we look forward to your responses to questions on notice and perhaps your reappearance.” The panel faced a barrage of questions from Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young and Labor senator Kim Carr about complaints from asylum seekers, incident reporting protocols, clinical depression, power failures and mould on tents in the island.
(19) Engineers first proposed plans for a barrage across the Severn in the 1930s.
(20) It was possible to affirm that the acetyl-L-carnitine treated patients showed statistically significant improvement in the behavioural scales, in the memory tests, in the attention barrage test and in the Verbal Fluency test.
Torrent
Definition:
(n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
(n.) Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.
(n.) Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
(2) Many correspondents joined in a torrent of condemnation on Twitter.
(3) It sits on two slender cables that stretch across the torrent 10 metres below.
(4) BT and Sky have now implemented the latest load of changes, preventing direct access for their subscribers (although the blocks are easily circumvented by users with a VPN), but BT has gone one step further and blocked access to other torrent sites as well.
(5) There was this thing called the Lima Paris Action Agenda where hundreds of businesses and thousands of regions and cities made promises to cut emissions that streamed into my email inbox in a torrent.
(6) He said many of the businesses in the old town centre had fared better than they had feared, but some had been flooded and that on one street by the church the water was flowing "like a torrent, 18 inches high".
(7) One resident in nearby Walsden was swept along about 15 metres by the torrent.
(8) In fact, no UK ISP has ever blocked a private torrent site before.” Barack Obama’s support for net neutrality sets precedent for the rest of the world • The headline, subheading and caption on this article were amended on 28 November.
(9) After entering PayPal or credit card details the user is given a Torrent file.
(10) The Pakistani Taliban have reacted to the torrent of negative media coverage after their attempt to assassinate a 14-year-old schoolgirl by threatening journalists.
(11) North Korea has in recent weeks conducted a string of artillery drills and missile tests, and has unleashed a torrent of racist and sexist rhetoric against the leaders of the US and South Korea.
(12) A graduate of Syracuse University, he was coming towards the end of a coast-to-coast cycle ride across America which he was making with his friend Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent.
(13) Rodriguez-Torrent escaped injury, but their host was struck by a pellet that entered her naval cavity and transversed her brain, lodging at the back of her skull.
(14) A further two people have died in flooding in eastern Romania, including a man who was ripped from his bicycle by a torrent of water in the eastern village of Ruginesti.
(15) The clumsy attempt to smear Navalny provoked a torrent of scorn online from his supporters.
(16) ‘Please look again’: a torrent of mysterious evidence makes its way to Lathierial Boyd Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boyd had an alibi in a club shooting.
(17) The retinal organisation of a cyprinid fish, Crossocheilus latius latius Hamilton, which inhabits the sub-Himalayan torrents of Sikkim, India, has been studied by light microscopy.
(18) Again, it looks simple, but in his delivery, in its immediacy and its signalling of the torrent of rhymes that are about to come, it’s one of the greatest opening couplets in the whole of hip-hop, and it still reverberates through global culture as such.
(19) It is all too easy to feel defeated by the sheer scale of the blurred torrent of information unleashed on the world.
(20) Speaking to the Guardian via telephone he said that he had left the country after the coup attempt last Friday because he started to receive a torrent of violent threats via social media, including threats of rape and death threats.