How to Use bomb threat in a Sentence

bomb threat

noun
  • No one has been charged with the other bomb threat, made via email.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Zay's rental car business was the target of a bomb threat.
    — Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Doxing a judge or calling in a bomb threat, that was one thing.
    — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The city has since received a bomb threat, and a neo-Nazi group has marched across the city.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Despite the alleged bomb threat, Sgt.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • The justice's sister was targeted by a bomb threat, which turned out to be a hoax.
    — Susan Page, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That could mean anything from the sudden death of a student to a bomb threat to a school shooting.
    — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In Iowa, a library had to close for the day after receiving a bomb threat.
    — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • But the in-person event was abruptly canceled after the store received a bomb threat.
    — The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
  • That can be an active shooter call, bomb threat or any other violent crime.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The zoo also had a bomb threat on Friday afternoon.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2026
  • He was arrested on suspicion of making a false bomb threat.
    — Cameron MacDonald, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • His family went through a scare recently with a bomb threat at their Stamford home.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025
  • His family went through a scare earlier this year with a bomb threat at their Stamford home.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
  • An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to a Hobart High School bomb threat.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • However, police determined the rumor of a bomb threat turned was not true.
    — Ivana Saric, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Milwaukee police confirmed a bomb threat was made but no explosives were found.
    — Journal Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The series of threats started Friday when an anonymous caller made a bomb threat.
    — Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Maybee faces charges of making a bomb threat and making terroristic threats, deputies said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The superintendent would later say the book was cited in a bomb threat made against the district.
    — Nicole Carr, ProPublica, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Darvish was arrested on suspicion of reporting a false bomb threat.
    — Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • But police showed up and ordered them to stop playing and shut down many of the events, often under the claim that a bomb threat had been called in.
    — TIME, 27 June 2024
  • One of the gamers might write a script for a bomb threat, another would record it and another would call it in through an online phone system.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • According to multiple media sources the flight rerouted after a bomb threat.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Feb. 2025
  • In September, a drag queen story hour in Brooklyn was moved after a bomb threat to the library.
    — John Leland, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In 2000, there was a bomb threat against a bookstore where Rowling was holding a book signing.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Another bomb threat in their names followed at the Chinese embassy in Norway.
    — Frank Langfitt, NPR, 11 Jan. 2025
  • That same morning, the Toledo Zoo in Ohio was the subject of another bomb threat.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
  • Slotkin said she was inundated with threats — including a bomb threat at her house — and that her family has faced harassment.
    — Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Coalition’s office received a bomb threat from a man who police say was also planning to attack a Pride parade.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN, 23 Feb. 2025

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