"rain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Battlements project over the gatehouse, and would have allowed defenders to rain missiles on attackers immediately below.
- Walkways along the tops of the curtain walls allowed defenders to rain missiles on enemies below, and battlements gave them further protection.
- Again and again, the People's Army rained missiles upon points in Russia, Europe, and North America.
- Finally there was the threat that Israel would not agree to stay out of the fighting, as it did during the gulf war even when Iraq rained missiles on Israel.
- In two airstrikes that further damaged an already fragile Middle East peace plan, Israeli helicopters today rained missiles on cars carrying Hamas militants.
- Fear of Implosion Militarily, the most immediate threat to the United States-Soviet relationship is not the possibility of one side's suddenly raining nuclear missiles on the other.
- The Byzantine light troops played a prominent role in the battle; posted on high ground they are described as raining missiles down onto the near helpless Seljuqs.
- Raining missiles on the defenders, the towers allowed the Roman soldiers beneath to complete their siege works, heightening the ramp until it surpassed the city walls.
- But to rain missiles on Kensho assumes the missiles can reach the surface of the planet.
- Rather than pursue the offenders, the allied U.S. and British pilots rained bombs and missiles on unrelated Iraqi radar, missile, and communications facilities.
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