How to Use bomblet in a Sentence

bomblet

noun

• In the past, each rocket could leave up to 26 dud bomblets on the ground.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
• In the 1990s, attention was first drawn to the high dud rate of cluster bomblets.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
• And sometimes, those bomblets don't explode right away.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• And, sometimes, those bomblets don't explode right away.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• One of the photos shows an unexploded bomblet about the size of a soda bottle on the ground near the front entrance.
  — Michael Biesecker, Erika Kinetz, Beatrice Dupuy, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2022
• The weapons are banned by much of the world because unexploded bomblets can pose risks to civilians years after the weapon is fired.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Cluster munitions are weapons that break apart and spread smaller bomblets over a large area.
  — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
• One is a pure high-explosive version while the other can strew smaller bomblets across a wider area.
  — Robert Bateman, Esquire, 7 Apr. 2017
• Unfortunately many of the bomblets in such weapons later went on to kill and maim civilians.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
• The weapons, banned by more than 100 countries, can leave unexploded bomblets that can kill or maim civilians.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• About 130 square miles of the country are thought to be contaminated with these baseball-sized bomblets, dropped by the hundreds.
  — Karen J. Coates, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2017
• Dud bomblets, however, are small and can quickly become difficult to spot on the ground.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 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
• When the mother bomb opens, its bomblets are sprayed in all directions, tearing apart whatever is in their paths.
  — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2016
• Cluster bomb casings that once held hundreds of bomblets have become fence panels or planters for green onions.
  — Tom Taylor, SI.com, 16 June 2017
• The clusters would separate during their descent and small parachutes would carry each bomblet to the ground.
  — Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
• The bombs or rockets release their payloads above a target, showering the area below with bomblets.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
• When used, the bomblets are dispersed over a large area and are intended to wreak destruction on multiple targets at once.
  — Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
• The munitions can leave behind unexploded bomblets that can do harm for decades.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
• In some cases, some bomblets do not detonate on impact and can explode later.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• Still, the munitions, which explode in the air, releasing smaller bomblets, are outlawed in more than 120 countries.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• The bomblets then explode into metal fragments that can tear off limbs and inflict fatal injuries.
  — John Hudson and Anastacia Galouchka, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• But why would a space bomber carry all those gravity bomblets in zero gravity?
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
• The cluster bomblet was probably concealed for years in a grove of olive and fig trees where Beiruti, his family, shepherds and their flocks walk daily.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• But 10% to 40% of the bomblets fail to detonate on impact, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• Cluster munitions explode in the air over a target, dispersing smaller bomblets across a wide area.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• The mini-bombs in cluster munition are known as submunitions, bomblets, or grenades.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2023
• Depending on the type used, anywhere from dozens to 600 bomblets may be released at a time, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 7 July 2023
• Cluster munitions, outlawed in more than 120 countries, explode in the air over a target, releasing up to hundreds of smaller bomblets across a wide area.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Instead of baseball-sized bomblets, each rocket would be stuffed with quadcopters specifically designed to survive the heat and tremendous G-forces of a rocket launch.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2017

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024