BOMB in a Sentence

Learn BOMB from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

87 example sentences for BOMB, such as:

1. The pilot gave the order to bomb up.
2. After the bomb, my nerves were on edge.
3. The bomb blew a huge hole in the ground.
4. The device is not a real bomb but a dummy.
5. His one leg was blown off by a bomb in the war.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOMB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bomb
 n.  a container filled with explosive, designed to explode
 v.  fail to get a passing grade
Classic Sentence:
1  They thought they had bomb proofs because the Governor stood up to even Jeff Davis and refused to send them to Virginia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  While she watched him, Archie turned suddenly toward the fire and spat a stream of tobacco juice on it with such vehemence that India, Melanie and Pitty leaped as though a bomb had exploded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
3  It will sometimes burst from out that cloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
4  A few years ago, a shell of sixty pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, was unearthed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR
5  Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under his chair.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAV...
6  Consider the gun slayers, bomb droppers here or there.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
7  At first the noise of the falling bombs and shells only aroused curiosity.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
16  After the bomb, my nerves were on edge.
17  He described global warming as "an environmental time bomb ticking away".
18  Cutting down the rainforest is an environmental time bomb.
19  A police dog, trained to sniff out explosives, found evidence of a bomb in the apartment.
20  The bomb squad also was summoned to examine one other package that proved to be harmless.
21  It takes a lot of nerve to be a bomb disposal expert.
22  The soldier picked up the unexploded bomb and hurled it away into the safety of the forest.
23  A bomb went off, and many people were injured by flying glass.
24  The bomb blew a huge hole in the ground.
25  The soldier hurled the bomb into the enemy gun post.
26  The bomb attacks have been attributed to a group of international terrorists.
27  His one leg was blown off by a bomb in the war.
28  Hiroshima was nearly obliterated by the atomic bomb.
29  The pilot gave the order to bomb up.
30  The device is not a real bomb but a dummy.