bomb

Example Sentences

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Iran isn’t currently enriching uranium and would need to recover fissile material that is buried under tons of rubble if it wanted to sprint to a bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

"Imagine if either the Nazis or the Russians got the nuclear bomb first. That would have been a very, very different world," he said.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Reed, who died at his home in New York Tuesday at 87, was a provocateur, a bomb thrower.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

The only difference is that now she lives in the northeast and thinks fall colors are beautiful where bomb cyclone blizzards are part of life.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

I watch for a long time from behind a pile of rubble still left from a German bomb, but I don’t see the policeman.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron