How to Use Molotov cocktail in a Sentence

Molotov cocktail

noun

• The rounds were blanks, the Molotov cocktail wasn’t lit, the smoke came from a machine.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• The Molotov cocktail was thrown at the front door of the clinic, causing a fire.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the week before the Fourth of July, this guy got picked up at the Obamas’ house with firearms and Molotov cocktails in his car.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
• In one of the attacks, the Molotov cocktail, which was made with a glass growler purchased from a Goodwill, didn't explode.
  — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Mar. 2022
• At the time these were were kites and balloons carrying Molotov cocktails flown from Gaza.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Some of the demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails and set off fireworks, the police said.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• Two men were killed, 19 people were injured and scores of homes and buildings were burned down in the attack, some with fire bombs and Molotov cocktails.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• Anarchist came in and firebombs with Molotov cocktails the Cop City site in Atlanta.
  — Tirhakah Love, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• Burning Khamenei's billboard in Yazd with a Molotov cocktail.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• That suspect had been arrested and was found in possession of Molotov cocktails, a smoke grenade, smoke bombs, and firearm parts.
  — Ashley Oliver, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
• In November 2019, attackers from a neighboring gang torched his shop with Molotov cocktails and shot him in the foot and groin.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• Protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at demonstrations, which caused a fire near the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
• He is accused of tossing Molotov cocktails at a Chesterland Church.
  — Robert Wang, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2023
• A lot of what these Gulf autocracies are afraid of is 26-year-olds with Molotov cocktails knocking on the doors and saying, 'this country hasn't changed.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• That footage also appeared in the beginning of the original video just after a Molotov cocktail, as it is known, is lit.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 26 July 2023
• Staff would be chased away by furious locals, who hurled dead animals and once even a Molotov cocktail into the mine’s compound.
  — TIME, 14 May 2024
• One assailant, wearing black gloves and a graying black beard, stood on a third-floor apartment balcony and, as deputies came closer, threw a Molotov cocktail at two white cars parked below.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• Millet returned a few minutes later and threw a Molotov cocktail into the bank, starting a fire that was extinguished by a customer.
  — Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 29 June 2023
• Batten is accused of advising and directing Brannon on how to make the Molotov cocktail.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
• On Tuesday night, protesters threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at police.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 9 Mar. 2023
• In 2009, workers at Ssangyong Motor Co. took control of a plant for months, using iron pipes and Molotov cocktails to battle police armed with tear gas and water cannons.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune Asia, 7 June 2024
• Sukhera said police broke open the main door of Khan’s residence and found automatic weapons, Molotov cocktails, iron rods and batons used in attacks on police during the week.
  — Babar Dogar, ajc, 19 Mar. 2023
• In the usually tranquil Pyrenees town of Pau in southwest France, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a new police office, national police said.
  — Sylvie Corbet, John Leicester and Alex Turnbull, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
• In the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukraine has had its back to the wall many times, in many forms: fighting with Molotov cocktails and guns handed out to the population, coping with blackouts and fleeing refugees.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Protesters lobbed fireworks, bricks and Molotov cocktails at police officers Sunday and set a bulldozer and other equipment on fire, videos of the scene show.
  — Fox News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Surveillance footage showed Brannon and another person throwing a Molotov cocktail at the front door of the medical clinic.
  — Mona Darwish, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2023
• In the usually tranquil Pyrenees town of Pau in southwestern France, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a police office, national police said.
  — Sylvie Corbet, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
• Even Molotov cocktails become useful in areas like cities where a tank’s situational awareness is poor, and a good hit against an air intake can draw flames into the inside of the vehicle.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
• Occasionally the anger spilled over — one Louisville officer’s uniform caught fire from a blaze started by a Molotov cocktail, and two other officers were shot in the street, taken to the hospital with wounds to the hip and abdomen.
  — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Their capabilities range from merely howling threats, to throwing Molotov cocktails, to carrying out suicide operations or blowing up cars, to seizing control of territory—at least for a time.
  — Nelly Lahoud, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024