Pools of heavy metals dotted the landscape under a thin atmosphere, which was continuously bombarded with deadly radiation from the local star.

They are continuously bombarded with sights, sounds and sentence fragments, often unconsciously, as they drive by billboards, glance at T-shirt logos and open their mail.

The town was continuously bombarded from 25 August to 25 September.

"Unfortunately, American aircraft fly over us as we are being continuously bombarded by Saddam's forces," he said, citing a clash with Iraq forces in the swamps near Basra on May 15.

Of course, the earth is continuously bombarded with material from space so earth is gaining mass every year but this is not the same as "creating" matter.

The fort was then continuously bombarded by heavy shells and eventually on 13 February, Sir Hugh Rose's force was successful in causing the sepoys to abandon the fort, which was entered by the 3rd Bombay Europeans early in the morning.

We are continuously bombarded by cosmic rays, atomic particles ejected by distant stellar catastrophes.

Travel is easier and we are continuously bombarded with information about distant places.

Since Earth (and everything else) is continuously bombarded by high-energy cosmic rays and yet the universe survives, the notion of a deadly vacuum collapse has been undermined, Dr. Turner acknowledged.

Before the attack, Badajoz was continuously bombarded by Nationalist artillery and bombers for a period of three days.