How to Use dirty bomb in a Sentence

dirty bomb

noun

• That’s more potential death than a dirty bomb or a small nuke.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• Shoigu warned Austin about the alleged Ukrainian dirty bomb plot.
  — Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
• What is a ‘dirty bomb’ and why is Russia saying Ukraine could use one?
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 25 Oct. 2022
• Within a few weeks, the very notion of a choir would become tantamount to a dirty bomb.
  — Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2021
• Is someone about to terrorize Los Angeles with the threat of a dirty bomb?
  — Chuck Barney, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2020
• Brenner has studied the effects of CT scans, nuclear plants and dirty bombs.
  — Michael Laris, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2020
• Western experts said using a dirty bomb would make little sense for Ukraine.
  — Alan Cullison, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
• The Seattle event is a dirty bomb, while the Chicago event is the release of a deadly biological agent.
  — CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
• The president was also asked whether the claims about a Ukrainian dirty bomb amounted to a false-flag operation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• Detonation of a dirty bomb has been a top U.S. government concern for decades.
  — Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• Still, Putin has made veiled threats to do so and more recently, Russia has claimed that Ukraine is considering the use of a radiation dirty bomb.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
• Meanwhile in Moscow, the Russian government continued to say that Ukraine was preparing to use a dirty bomb.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2022
• The wife and mother in German film In the Fade chases down the terrorists who blew up her family, planting her own dirty bomb after they are acquitted of their crime.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
• Russia’s claims about a dirty bomb first emerged late last month, triggering phone calls among U.S. officials, allies and Russian leaders.
  — John Hudson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2022
• While thousands of people were tossing confetti in Times Square, the Commander was on a secret mission around the corner, protecting the city from dirty bombs.
  — Abby Ellin, Marie Claire, 8 Jan. 2019
• Ukraine has rejected Moscow’s claims as an attempt to distract attention from its own plans to detonate a dirty bomb.
  — Andrew Meldrum, ajc, 25 Oct. 2022
• The amount is too small to make a nuclear bomb, agency spokesman Victor Dricks said Friday, but could be used to make a dirty bomb to spread radioactive contamination.
  — CBS News, 8 May 2018
• Ukraine and the West say that the claims — for which Russia has offered no evidence — are baseless disinformation that could be used as a pretext by the Kremlin to use a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Shoigu’s warnings of a dirty bomb garnered just a few days of muted enthusiasm on Telegram, before the conversation moved on.
  — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2022
• Defense officials this week have said there are no indications Russia has made a decision to use nuclear weapons or a dirty bomb in Ukraine.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2022
• Moscow then accused Ukraine of working on a dirty bomb, a move Western officials said was intended as an excuse to escalate the conflict.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• For nearly all of the 1990s, the threat of nuclear attack shifted to the background, transforming itself into the fear that a terrorist would obtain a nuclear device or set off a dirty bomb.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• Neither are baseless allegations that Ukraine is preparing a dirty bomb.
  — WIRED, 4 Nov. 2022
• If the government collapses, terrorists could steal a nuclear weapon or radioactive material that could be used in a dirty bomb.
  — Nicholas Grossman, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018
• However, officials also cautioned that Russia may actually be constructing a dirty bomb of its own in an attempt to pin an attack on Ukraine.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 25 Oct. 2022
• But a dirty bomb, containing the sorts of material RadSecure wants to secure, does not require as much sophistication.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2022
• Earlier, the Russian defense ministry had published a map indicating that Ukraine was preparing a dirty bomb at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that has seen constant shelling for weeks.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2022
• Putin on Wednesday repeated the accusation that Ukraine was planning to build and use a dirty bomb, drawing from its civilian stores of uranium and other radioactive material.
  — Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• Two famous cases that the I.R.S. challenged involved a dentist who used a policy to insure his practice against a terrorist attack and a jeweler who created a policy to cover a dirty bomb attack.
  — Paul Sullivan, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• While such medical equipment is heavily protected, city health commissioner Mary T. Bassett said, there has long been an interest to reduce the risk of a dirty bomb altogether.
  — Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017

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