How to Use bazooka in a Sentence

bazooka

noun
  • In one image, an older civilian is trained how to use a bazooka.
    — Rachelle Krygier, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Purdy was never known for having a bazooka arm.
    — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Lee wine guard had one big shell in his bazooka, in his battle to beat Democrat.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 19 May 2022
  • But the oil bazooka is not inspiring confidence in the market.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Mahomes has taken that trend and blasted it to smithereens with the bazooka attached to the right side of his torso.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
  • Economists have talked a lot in recent weeks about the need to pull out the economic bazooka to fight this battle.
    — Julia Chatterley For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The bigger bazooka is what previous chairmen have fired when inflation was this high.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • The next night, shrapnel from a German bazooka came through an open window and hit Mills above his right eye.
    — al, 24 Apr. 2022
  • But, in the first phase of the coronavirus pandemic, many countries opted for the bazooka.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Hendrickson hammered home the game-winner like a downward bazooka to the kisser.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 15 Nov. 2020
  • Finding errors in Dan Brown’s works is like shooting fish in a barrel, with a bazooka.
    — David Hambling, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2009
  • The expectant dad walks into the backyard carrying a live chicken and a bazooka.
    — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
  • Yet 800 miles to the west, Wisconsinites are still looking down the barrel of a bazooka.
    — Tim Culpan | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2019
  • The bazooka, an important tactical weapon, was also tested here.
    — John Hanc, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2016
  • Standing 6-6, Eason is a mammoth of a quarterback who boasts a bazooka for a right arm.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2020
  • Armed with a bazooka, Atkinson ran from foxhole to foxhole in the snow while taking out five German tanks.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The game’s messaging is presented with all the subtlety of a shovel-launching bazooka.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Shooting money out of a bazooka is not self-evidently what the state of America’s infrastructure calls for.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 2 Apr. 2021
  • To beat back runaway inflation, Fed chairman Jerome Powell signaled the central bank will not put the bazooka away any time soon.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 June 2022
  • The bazooka has also never been used before, and some European countries, like Germany, are still looking for ways to deescalate.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The caller told Bridgewater Police there was a man wearing camo and possibly carrying what appeared to be a bazooka.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 2 June 2026
  • Later that same day, Barfoot turned back a counterattack of three Nazi Tiger tanks by destroying the lead vehicle with a bazooka.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Nov. 2020
  • In the video's denouement, the fidget spinner bazooka is launched into a can of lighter fluid, which, unsurprisingly, causes a massive explosion and fire.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2017
  • Their hive mind was even willing to supply Carol with an atom bomb or a bazooka — despite the grenade mishap and two emotional outbursts that killed millions of other Joined people around the world.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 28 Nov. 2025
  • In cities like Khartoum, the fighting has taken place in heavily populated areas, with both sides deploying machine guns, bazookas, rockets and, in the case of the army, warplanes.
    — Michael Crowley, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • Leaf blower mistaken for bazooka The caller told Bridgewater Police there was a man wearing camo and possibly carrying what appeared to be a bazooka.
    — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026
  • The trade bazooka could block some of America’s access to EU markets or impose export controls, among a broader list of potential countermeasures.
    — Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
  • His next miss came while TCU was working on its bazooka field goal package, a late-game situation where the Horned Frogs rush the field goal team on the field for a last second attempt with no timeouts.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Aug. 2025
  • That’s because there’s a patient with unexploded ammunition in his chest—and a terrified paramedic, played by Christina Ricci, has her hand inside, holding the homemade bazooka steady.
    — Annabel Gutterman, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Van Barfoot single-handedly silenced three machine-gun nests, disabled a German tank with a bazooka, blew up an artillery cannon with a demolition charge and took 17 enemy soldiers prisoner.
    — New York Times, 4 July 2022

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