How to Use bomb in a Sentence

bomb

1 of 2 noun

• They hid a bomb in the building.
• Many bombs were dropped on the city during the war.
• A bomb went off downtown.
• The cat gets close to try the flesh; a bomb pounds the street.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New York Review of Books, 29 Feb. 2024
• Hersey tells the story of six survivors of the blast and the story of the whole bomb.
  — Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
• Hall was a key member of the team that built the implosion bomb.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• The atom bomb could fall, or Martians could arrive, all that sort of thing.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
• Satellite images obtained by The Post show bomb damage to the area near the pit.
  — Rennie Svirnovskiy, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• And the scoring bomb to Hill wasn’t his only low point Sunday.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• But the script is awash in clichés and the movie lacking in excitement despite plenty of guns and knives and bombs.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• If your giftee is someone who could use some 'me time,' a bath bomb set is always the right move.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• Her vehicle and backpack were searched and no bomb was found.
  — S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2024
• At least one of the victims died after finding the nearest bomb shelter locked.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• Haze Juices is a lean, dry IPA unlike the sugar bombs delivered by many hazies.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Throw in scented bath bombs to make their post-massage bath even more soothing.
  — Melissa Mills, Parents, 5 Dec. 2023
• The turkey-sized bomb dropped out of the hovering helicopter and plopped onto the soft snow below.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
• Riddle hooked up twice on scoring bombs to Chase Monroe and added his third rushing score in three games.
  — Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Sep. 2023
• Unlike Israel, Gaza has no air raid sirens or bomb shelters.
  — Morgan Winsor, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2023
• There were, however, other materials in the can that could be used to make a bomb, deputies said.
  — Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 26 Mar. 2024
• Many Arab towns don’t have bomb shelters to protect them from rocket attacks.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• In the video, a tearful Cohen described how one woman was in a bomb shelter that was set on fire by the terrorists to force her out.
  — Desiree Adib, ABC News, 24 Nov. 2023
• So what is the point of a smart bomb that only affects decent human beings, not people who are evil.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• When Hamas terrorists stormed the music festival on Oct. 7, the 23-year-old hid with a group in a bomb shelter, his parents said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Mark Strong is lending his voice and celebrity to help raise money to renovate a bomb shelter for 327 school kids in Ukraine.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2023
• The Punisher has a range of 25 miles and can carry five and a half pounds of explosive inside a small bomb, which is attached to the underside of the drone.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2023
• In addition to candles, Monet makes wax melts, bath bombs, soaps, lotions, sprays and more.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 12 July 2023
• Chai Baked Oatmeal This dish is a true flavor bomb made with baked oatmeal, pecans, and shredded coconut.
  — Women's Health, 11 July 2023
• The weapons pack such bomblets into rockets, bombs, missiles and artillery shells that break apart midair and scatter the munitions over a large area.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 6 July 2023
• In Gaza, in their search for hostages, Israeli forces have raided hospitals, dug up gravesites and scoured tunnels used by Hamas to evade capture and hide from Israeli bombs.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
• Lee has already saved her life once, in an early scene, yanking her out of harm’s way shortly before a bomb explodes, leaving behind streams of blood and mangled body parts.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2024

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bomb

2 of 2 verb

• The movie bombed at the box office.
• A car was bombing down the highway.
• The city was heavily bombed during the war.
• The play bombed on Broadway.
• He bombed at his first performance.
• I completely bombed my math exam.
• The planes flew 200 miles to bomb their target.
• At least half the homes where the refugees took shelter were bombed.
  — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The government bombed all the bridges and access to and from the island.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 May 2023
• The film bombed, and more critics than not disagreed with me.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
• And that was one of the reasons that Stimson took Kyoto off the list to be bombed.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 20 July 2023
• Street hoodlums threw sticks at him and bombed his front porch with bricks.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2023
• Well, that’s not going to be enough for Putin to stop bombing Ukraine.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2023
• Their country was being bombed, and so many of them fled west.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• He’s been bombing first serves, including one in the third round that clocked in at 147 mph.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• The office was bombed leaving her eardrum ruptured and her cheek scarred.
  — Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• Dresden was bombed to smithereens in 1945 and restored to its Baroque splendor.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• But somewhere amid the wreckage, there was a ray of fortune: None of his staff were there when the building was bombed.
  — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
• At the height of his action hero fame, Bruce Willis starred as a gun-for-hire in this action film that bombed at the box office.
  — Jacob Linden, Country Living, 25 Apr. 2023
• Two days later, the building next door was bombed—and the windows of their new office were blown through.
  — WIRED, 25 Oct. 2023
• Thousands of miles from the cities that Russia is bombing in Ukraine, China has been studying the war.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Hashem lost an uncle, and the family house was bombed by Al Qaeda.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023
• In addition, the places that would most likely be where the hostages would shelter were being bombed.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• On the same day Fernando Tatis Jr. returns and goes 0-for-5, Twitter bombs my blue check.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• Right after the Nazis bombed Coventry in November of 1940, Tauský's unit was sent in to help find survivors.
  — oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2023
• Japanese planes bombed the ship transporting her and strafed the lifeboats.
  — Michael Washburn, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
• After a kiosk was bombed, a 72-year-old man, one of her distant relatives, was killed.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• In the dark hours, Ukraine’s Baba Yaga night-drones bomb the Russian assembly points and seed the roads with mines.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• In consequence, the Russians have been left free to bomb the cities at will and are blasting away at their power systems.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 7 Apr. 2024
• In late February, Russian forces bombed the train station, now a pile of rubble.
  — Claire Harbage, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024