How to Use cherry bomb in a Sentence

cherry bomb

noun
  • Cherry for sure, but not a smack-you-in-the-face cherry bomb.
    Marc Bona, cleveland, 13 June 2021
  • M-80s, quarter sticks, cherry bombs and silver salutes have been banned for decades.
    Javonte Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
  • Let the pros handle the fireworks, not teenagers with cherry bombs or firecrackers that could cause injury.
    Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2018
  • The national anthem, the Marseillaise, rang out, cars honked horns and cherry bombs cracks.
    Elaine Ganley, Fox News, 15 July 2018
  • The warehouse was full of booze owned by a liquor distributor and bottles of bourbon, scotch and gin went off like cherry bombs.
    Michael Carey, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Could the festive cherry bomb dye job be a temporary diversion that will end as the film's production draws to an end?
    Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Earlier in the day, Broshears had called the police to complain that the teens had been throwing cherry bombs into traffic.
    Eric Markowitz, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The cherry bomb on the label and the irreverent name suggest explosive flavor and are a pretty good match for the wine inside.
    Marnie Old, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
  • In Pittsburgh neighborhood kids would put cherry bombs in their mailbox, and in Shaker Heights prank calls happened regularly.
    Sarah Begley, Time, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Lost: Old School Spontaneity Kirby flinging cherry bombs down a hotel stairwell.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
  • Other top sellers include the cherry bomb, chicken pesto, hot Italian, Swedish potato, pork apple, bratwurst, turkey apricot, spicy Cajun and sweet onion.
    Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Federal law prohibits the use of stronger explosives, including M-80s, quarter sticks, silver salutes and cherry bombs.
    Javonte Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
  • Players acknowledge Donovan’s departure by tearing his pants off and lighting a cherry bomb under his car.
    Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Bovan sent models out in madcap proportions and glossy pouts that faded from burgundy to fluorescent coral, while Westwood gave celebs like Rose McGowan a cherry bomb shade for their poetic outcries on climate change.
    Vogue, 20 Feb. 2019
  • For posterity: mozzarella, Berkshire sausage, cherry bomb pepper and basil, all on Coalfire’s signature blackened crust.
    Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • But a 1972 decision by a federal appeals court that upheld a civil disorder conviction of man who threw a cherry bomb at a line of police officers responding to a fire at a riot on a university campus provides some guidance.
    oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2020
  • However, bigger, louder, more potentially destructive pyrotechnics, such as cherry bombs and the window-rattlers shot through mini-mortars, have long frustrated Costa Mesa residents, especially those living on the Westside.
    Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 18 July 2019

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