How to Use bazooka in a Sentence

bazooka

noun

• In cities like Khartoum, the fighting has taken place in heavily populated areas, with both sides deploying machine guns, bazookas, rockets and, in the case of the army, warplanes.
  — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• Moore and Lucas use it like a bazooka to kill a housefly.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• Yet 800 miles to the west, Wisconsinites are still looking down the barrel of a bazooka.
  — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2019
• Lee wine guard had one big shell in his bazooka, in his battle to beat Democrat.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 May 2022
• In one image, an older civilian is trained how to use a bazooka.
  — Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
• Mahomes has taken that trend and blasted it to smithereens with the bazooka attached to the right side of his torso.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
• The next night, shrapnel from a German bazooka came through an open window and hit Mills above his right eye.
  — al, 24 Apr. 2022
• But, in the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic, many countries opted for the bazooka.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2021
• Finding errors in Dan Brown’s works is like shooting fish in a barrel, with a bazooka.
  — David Hambling, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2009
• Economists have talked a lot in recent weeks about the need to pull out the economic bazooka to fight this battle.
  — Julia Chatterley For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 24 Mar. 2020
• Standing 6-6, Eason is a mammoth of a quarterback who boasts a bazooka for a right arm.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2020
• Armed with a bazooka, Atkinson ran from foxhole to foxhole in the snow while taking out five German tanks.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
• Hendrickson hammered home the game-winner like a downward bazooka to the kisser.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 15 Nov. 2020
• Beijing needs to bring out the big policy bazooka to stabilize the sector—before it’s too late.
  — Jacky Wong, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• The expectant dad walks into the backyard carrying a live chicken and a bazooka.
  — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• At the center of the excitement is the Shelby's supercharged 5.2-liter V-8, which plays a thrilling soundtrack through its bazooka-like exhaust pipes.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2021
• To beat back runaway inflation, Fed chairman Jerome Powell signaled the central bank will not put the bazooka away any time soon.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 June 2022
• The bigger bazooka is what previous chairmen have fired when inflation was this high.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• The game’s messaging is presented with all the subtlety of a shovel-launching bazooka.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
• Later that same day, Barfoot turned back a counterattack of three Nazi Tiger tanks by destroying the lead vehicle with a bazooka.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2020
• The bazooka, an important tactical weapon, was also tested here.
  — John Hanc, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2016
• Shooting money out of a bazooka is not self-evidently what the state of America’s infrastructure calls for.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 2 Apr. 2021
• In the video's denouement, the fidget spinner bazooka is launched into a can of lighter fluid, which, unsurprisingly, causes a massive explosion and fire.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2017
• How does a machine differentiate an adult from a child, a fighter with a bazooka from a civilian with a broom, a hostile combatant from a wounded or surrendering soldier?
  — New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• In one scene, rambunctious teenagers use a captured bazooka to fire potatoes and onions into the sky; in another, a young man sits amid the rubble of an apartment apparently shelled by government forces and performs a comic routine.
  — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2020
• Richardson is an electric runner with a bazooka for an arm, but his 53.8% completion percentage and limited experience are concerns.
  — Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2023
• Van Barfoot single-handedly silenced three machine-gun nests, disabled a German tank with a bazooka, blew up an artillery cannon with a demolition charge and took 17 enemy soldiers prisoner.
  — New York Times, 4 July 2022
• Van Barfoot single-handedly silenced three machine-gun nests, disabled a German tank with a bazooka, blew up an artillery cannon with a demolition charge, and took 17 enemy soldiers prisoner.
  — Chris Cameron, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2022
• If the peak-inflation theory holds true, that would likely mean the Federal Reserve, already embarking on an agressively hawkish policy of ratcheting up interest rates, wouldn't have to bring out the bazooka to keep prices from rising even further.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 11 May 2022
• Investors don't expect much in the way of policy announcements after last month's monetary bazooka, when Draghi pushed interest rates further into negative territory and relaunched the bank's bond-buying program.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 24 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024