How to Use suicide bomber in a Sentence

suicide bomber

noun

• When a suicide bomber killed a friend of Hikade's who was a mom of three, she was shaken.
  — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
• That then when the suicide bomber went off, not only did Marine Sgt.
  — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
• The play, which was about suicide bombings, was itself attacked by a suicide bomber.
  — Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, his son, twenty-one years old, was tapped by Claus von Stauffenberg to be the suicide bomber in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• An ancient precursor to the kamikaze pilot and the suicide bomber, passed down through oral tradition.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 22 Aug. 2024
• In the same month as the prison break, a suicide bomber got inside police headquarters and killed the provincial commander.
  — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• Her husband had come home from so many deployments to Iraq, even surviving a suicide bomber.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• The provincial police chief, Akhtar Hayat Khan, told the local news media that the explosion was set off by a suicide bomber.
  — Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 30 July 2023
• Smoke rises from cities; the highways are filled with walls of wrecked cars; suicide bombers dive into a crowd lined up for water rations; death squads, snipers, and mass graves dot the countryside.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024
• Related When a suicide bomber attacks the National Guard during a protest, Lee ends up shielding a young woman near the blast.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
• The scene of desperation quickly turned into one of horror when a suicide bomber attacked.
  — Farnoush Amiri, Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2023
• But Raziq beat back the suicide bombers and brought stability to Kandahar.
  — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• In March, a suicide bomber killed five Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project in northern Pakistan.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
• Still, nothing has been said officially about what may have happened to the brave Afghani girl who survived a suicide bomber as her family fled the turmoil that engulfed her home country.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2023
• In the 2021 incident, a suicide bomber set off a blast near a checkpoint where Marines were checking the documents of people being allowed into the Kabul airport to escape the Taliban takeover of the country.
  — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
• Relatives and mourners carry the casket of a victim killed in a suicide bomber attack in Bajaur district, Pakistan, on July 31.
  — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
• Hamas always identifies the dead by gender, as if to suggest that a 25-year-old woman firing a rocket or becoming a suicide bomber must be counted as a civilian.
  — Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2024
• In March, five Chinese engineers in the northwest of the country were killed when a suicide bomber, who Pakistan alleged was an Afghan national, rammed a vehicle into their convoy.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 5 July 2024
• In July 2016, a suicide bomber carried out an attack near the compound, killing only himself and injuring no U.S. employees.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• Moments earlier, a smaller bomb in a backpack was detonated by a suicide bomber in the nearby Paddy’s Pub nightclub.
  — Ap, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• In addition to child-killing, the play came with dismemberment, insanity, fellatio and rapes, with Dea violated by a son who is then blown up by a suicide bomber.
  — Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• At least 22 people were killed and more than 30 were injured when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a security forces compound in Pakistan on Tuesday, local officials said.
  — Habibullah Khan, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2023
• Hamas, along with other terrorist groups inside Gaza, could also begin deploying suicide bombers against Israeli soldiers on foot patrol.
  — Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
• His collection of on-stage collaborators (i.e., puppets) include a beer-swelling redneck yahoo and a dead, incompetent suicide bomber named Achmed, among others.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
• Somehow, the music matches the nervous, revolutionary energy on screen: the unlikely sight of an angry Brooklyn patrolled by troops, hundreds of people clashing in the streets, a suicide bomber putting an abrupt punctuation to it all.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• This change in circumstances, however, never meant that ISIS had outright prohibited female combatants and suicide bombers.
  — Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2017
• Earlier this year, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a mosque inside a police compound in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing at least 95 people, in one of the deadliest attacks ever on Pakistan’s security forces.
  — Haq Nawaz Khan, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
• Advertisement Prosecutors argued that Trabelsi volunteered to be a suicide bomber and insisted on it even after being discouraged by bin Laden.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• Earlier on Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near an entrance of the Interior Ministry, wounding two police officers.
  — Suzan Fraser, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Akhtar Hayat Gandapur said an initial investigation suggested a suicide bomber sneaked into the venue despite the security provided by party volunteers.
  — Anwarullah Khan and Riaz Khan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024