How to Use kamikaze in a Sentence

kamikaze

1 of 2 noun

• This time, the Dolphin kamikaze rush proved a game saver.
  — By Bob Rubin, miamiherald, 19 Dec. 2016
• By war’s end, 52 of his shipmates had been killed, most of them by kamikaze pilots.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
• With the 5-year-old kamikaze within earshot, the answer from Rick Dykes was simple.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• The flag was described by the Lexington as the relic of a kamikaze pilot.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2023
• Because of its tartness, kombucha works the best in sour drinks like a margarita, kamikaze, or a whiskey sour.
  — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 9 Mar. 2017
• Hamas deployed missiles and drones, including kamikaze drones of the kind used now in Russia and Ukraine, as well as teams of men with guns.
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2023
• Ukraine has used this kind of drone to deliver kamikaze attacks against Russia.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
• In other words, don’t expect a massive amount of little ISR or kamikaze drones to flood into the Services.
  — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The Harop, by contrast, dives at its target like a kamikaze, exploding on impact.
  — Thomas Mutch, Popular Mechanics, 29 Oct. 2021
• The kamikaze drones are designed to strike specific targets with explosives from distances of up to 1,500 miles.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
• Behind a tall torii gate, a larger-than-life statue of a kamikaze pilot is flanked by a huge wall painted with Japan’s wartime Rising Sun flag.
  — Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
• The aim, says the spokesman, is twofold: to save Ukrainian lives and to trick Russians into squandering their own, very expensive, kamikaze drones, shells and missiles.
  — Melissa Bell, CNN, 11 Sep. 2023
• Those who managed to avoid the mines came under attack from multiple Russian kamikaze drones.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 31 July 2023
• Attached to the sub were aquatic kamikazes: mini-subs called kaiten armed with explosives.
  — Tony Perry, latimes.com, 6 July 2018
• The Russians had discovered their position and launched a kamikaze drone attack.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• An American volunteer with Ukrainian forces has shared videos of his unit’s first kamikaze attack drone.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The kamikaze are the most potent symbol of the war in Japan, a vivid example of the dangers of fervent nationalism and martial fanaticism.
  — Ben Dooley, Star Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• One deftly framed the debate over a contentious bill; the other recommended his party go full kamikaze.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• This fueled speculation that the object could be a prototype kamikaze-style sat killer.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2018
• He was injured by shrapnel in one Japanese kamikaze attack and awarded a Purple Heart.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
• The concert ended with the Piano Sonata of Yoshinao Nakada, a work begun in 1949, not long after the war in which its composer had served as a kamikaze pilot — and survived.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• In mid-May, following a few months of quiet in the skies over Kyiv, Russia restarted its almost nightly bombardments of cruise missiles and kamikaze drones.
  — WIRED, 25 July 2023
• At the same time, AI kamikaze drones are becoming a staple of modern warfare, drawing tech executives into the arms race.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
• Multiple outlets have already compared Christie's 2024 plans to a kamikaze mission.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2023
• And though Kaufman was the most crazy-visionary comedian of his time — a kamikaze jester, a stand-up performance artist, a cracked genius of the what-is-reality?
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
• Shaw was paid to play a ferocious sociopath on a kamikaze course through society, a role that called for a type of rage and recklessness that had invaded his youth, and nearly driven him to murder.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
• Ukraine’s military intelligence said the country’s armed forces had so far shot down more than 300 Iranian kamikaze drones deployed by Russia to strike objects in Ukraine.
  — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• While Ukrainian air defenses allegedly shoot down well over half of incoming cruise missiles and kamikaze drones, the Kinzhals come in to too fast for Kyiv’s Soviet-era defenses to respond in time.
  — Popular Mechanics, 9 May 2023
• Ukrainian military officials said the Russian attacks had run afoul of minefields and been pummeled by artillery, kamikaze drones and anti-tank missiles.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
• There were Russian barrages of cruise missiles and Iranian supplied kamikaze drones causing nationwide blackouts in Ukraine.
  — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2023

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kamikaze

2 of 2 adjective

• Some water may be leaking through, but none of those kamikaze birds will.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
• The Chiefs had noted how the Dolphins liked to put on a kamikaze rush to block kicks, so Stram decided to call a fake.
  — By Bob Rubin, miamiherald, 19 Dec. 2016
• Like the kamikaze pilots of the air, Kairyu crews were not expected to return from their missions.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
• The ship was sunk there after five kamikaze pilots flew into the destroyer.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• All but his brother-in-law, who was killed in a Japanese kamikaze attack, survived it.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 18 May 2017
• She was destroyed in a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in November 1944.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2019
• Your dependable melee weapon becomes useless against a stream of kamikaze service droids.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 11 Aug. 2019
• The result was a three-headed attack that allowed Westbrook to be efficient in ways his kamikaze ball couldn’t allow for last season.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The menu runs for pages — everything from fatty tuna rolls to poached octopus to kamikaze rolls of eel, cucumber, shrimp, flying fish roe, spicy mayo, and sweet soy sauce.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• These kamikaze-like drone swarms are pretty far out for now, particularly for the Russia who lags behind the West in drone technology.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2019
• Yet generally, these dancers seem less like kamikaze street warriors than scampering puppies, who like nothing more than to run around in circles and wriggle on their backs.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
• Or maybe some other Trump opponent will pick the perfect kamikaze maneuver and reopen the political field.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 July 2019
• The Ranger missions were kamikaze-style; the spacecraft were engineered to streak straight toward the moon and capture as many images as possible before crashing onto its surface.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 5 July 2019
• One intriguing possibility: Since there appears to be no way to recover the drone for reuse, why not turn it into a kamikaze platform?
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2017
• The dog also accompanied Wynne on 12 aerial combat missions, was awarded eight battle stars, and survived a kamikaze attack and a typhoon.
  — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• This new threat replicated the kamikaze attacks and threatened to overwhelm American defenses.
  — Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2020
• The Americans have landed on Okinawa, and kamikaze pilots are not the only agents of imperial Japan engaged in suicide missions.
  — Tom Nagorski, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• Which means that, in the length of a single generation, global warming has brought us to the brink of planetary catastrophe, and that the story of the industrial world’s kamikaze mission is also the story of a single lifetime.
  — David Wallace-Wells, Daily Intelligencer, 9 July 2017
• American soldiers had slowly and bloodily fought their way, island by island, across the Pacific, while the Japanese were running out of kamikaze pilots and planes, and their navy had been half destroyed.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Anti-scooter activists tend to paint scooter riders as kamikaze daredevils, slaloming through cars and pedestrians.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Candidates have fixated on the unrealistic Brexit deadline of October 31st, claimed magical negotiating powers for themselves and flirted with a kamikaze policy of leaving the EU without a deal.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2019
• Simultaneously, swarms of speedboats loaded with explosives launched kamikaze attacks.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Jan. 2020
• Some water may be leaking through, but none of those kamikaze birds will.
  — Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
• The Chiefs had noted how the Dolphins liked to put on a kamikaze rush to block kicks, so Stram decided to call a fake.
  — By Bob Rubin, miamiherald, 19 Dec. 2016
• Like the kamikaze pilots of the air, Kairyu crews were not expected to return from their missions.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2019
• The ship was sunk there after five kamikaze pilots flew into the destroyer.
  — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• All but his brother-in-law, who was killed in a Japanese kamikaze attack, survived it.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 18 May 2017
• She was destroyed in a kamikaze attack during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in November 1944.
  — Fox News, 31 July 2019
• Your dependable melee weapon becomes useless against a stream of kamikaze service droids.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 11 Aug. 2019
• The result was a three-headed attack that allowed Westbrook to be efficient in ways his kamikaze ball couldn’t allow for last season.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017

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