How to Use bomb in a Sentence

bomb

1 of 2 noun
  • They hid a bomb in the building.
  • Many bombs were dropped on the city during the war.
  • A bomb went off downtown.
  • Iran now is weeks away from a bomb.
    — NBC news, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Stephen dropped many bombs in that speech.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Britain, cut off, built its own bomb.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The cat gets close to try the flesh; a bomb pounds the street.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New York Review of Books, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Then gunfire and bombs lit up the night sky.
    — Edie Kasten, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Horn said the room was more like a bomb shelter.
    — Editorial, Boston Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The eighth-inning bomb was huge, too.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 30 May 2026
  • Someone might drop a truth bomb that changes the whole game.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The grenade turned out to be a smoke bomb, the report states.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
  • Or This one’s going to be a bomb.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Ronayne gave her a three-run lead with her bomb in the same frame.
    — Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 8 May 2026
  • Max Muncy hit a bomb to deep center field.
    — Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Make seed bombs to toss in empty lots or gardens.
    — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The sound of scare bombs comes nearer and nearer.
    — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • One photo shows the fragments of a bomb.
    — Sarah Dean, NBC news, 12 June 2026
  • After the last bomb dropped, the valley fell silent.
    — Oriana Van Praag, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
  • That balance comes from a pressure bomb.
    — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Letuli’s bomb broke a scoreless tie in the third inning.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • But no one died; the local team had bomb shelters at the ready.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Gone were the attempts at 125-mph bombs.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Farris hit his second homer of the day in the third, a three-run bomb.
    — Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 23 Mar. 2026
  • These are the investors most likely to make a big move when a tape bomb hits.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The menu was a list of greasy-spoon breakfasts and gut-bomb lunches.
    — Michael Deeds updated May 14, Idaho Statesman, 14 May 2026
  • No other country has those bombs.
    — CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The gasps around the room were, indeed, the sound of a bomb being dropped.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
  • How close is Iran to a nuclear bomb?
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Hall was a key member of the team that built the implosion bomb.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023

bomb

2 of 2 verb
  • The movie bombed at the box office.
  • A car was bombing down the highway.
  • The city was heavily bombed during the war.
  • The play bombed on Broadway.
  • He bombed at his first performance.
  • I completely bombed my math exam.
  • The planes flew 200 miles to bomb their target.
  • Plus his last two movies bombed.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Plus his last two movies bombed.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The next film bombed, Ace in the Hole.
    — Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • At least half the homes where the refugees took shelter were bombed.
    — Marc Santora Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • True, but- well, they're getting bombed.
    — CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Street hoodlums threw sticks at him and bombed his front porch with bricks.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2023
  • Even as the hospital was bombed more than once.
    — ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • This can and should be done without bombing the plant.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • Most of the miniseries outside of a few have bombed.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • Their country was being bombed, and so many of them fled west.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The film bombed, and more critics than not disagreed with me.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Some doubted that the car had been bombed or that anyone had been killed.
    — Oriana Van Praag, New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Most of these guys bomb because they can’t get used to the losing.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2026
  • Trump talks God in his speech on bombing Iran.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Trump has threatened to bomb bridges and power plants in Iran.
    — Emily Guskin, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • That's the only reason there is for bombing them in the first place.
    — NBC news, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The cross on this painting is a target, like when bombing with a drone.
    — Thomas Patier, Artforum, 27 Jan. 2026
  • There was a time not long ago when boats coming out of Venezuela were beloved, not bombed.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The office was bombed leaving her eardrum ruptured and her cheek scarred.
    — Tabitha Britt, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Look, this is a president who has now bombed eight countries.
    — ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • And this is the same thing all Gazans did after their homes were bombed or damaged.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Next big storm threat brewing could 'bomb' out along East Coast with heavy snow.
    — FOXNews.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Iran was bombed twice in the midst of talks with the United States over the last year.
    — Saeed Shah, Time, 13 Apr. 2026

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