How to Use bombardier in a Sentence

bombardier

noun
  • Hers was a bombardier who was shot down twice and earned a purple heart.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Foulkes, as the bombardier, along with the nose gunner were told to bail out first.
    — Karen Brainard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • The bombardier is not afraid to go deep, and has the arm strength to back up the bravado.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The bombardier spied a brief hole in the clouds north of the aiming point by the harbor.
    — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 2 Aug. 2017
  • The bombardier was captured after his plane crashed into the ocean.
    — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 18 June 2018
  • The bombardier, Grunder said, saved his life by tying a tourniquet.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • And my father was a bombardier in World War II.
    — ABC News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The bombardier cars, though, have very quick and simple ramps that aren’t mechanical and aren’t noisy.
    — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 23 May 2017
  • The River Thames bends round in a horseshoe shape, easy for a bombardier to target.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • As the bomb bay doors opened, anti-aircraft fire, called flak, jolted the plane, but the bombardier managed to pull the lever.
    — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
  • The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Asian bombardier beetles aren’t the only creatures in nature who can survive being swallowed.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The book was based on the writer’s experiences as a World War II bombardier.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 13 Dec. 1999
  • The fact that the bombardiers are Saudi hardly exculpates the United States.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2019
  • After washing out of pilot school, he was trained as a bombardier and then assigned to a B-24 Liberator.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • These nickel-bag bombardiers wore designer labels like sartorial armor.
    — Barry Michael Cooper, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Among them bombardiers, mechanics, instructors, navigators, crew chiefs, nurses, cooks.
    — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Christopher Abbott also secured a nomination for his portrayal of a bombardier desperate to complete his missions in the waning days of the war.
    — Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2019
  • That veteran, 95-year-old Don Foulkes of Fallbrook, told students about being a bombardier on a B-24.
    — Karen Brainard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 May 2017
  • One came returning from Le Trait, France, after Ferebee and the other bombardiers had knocked out German war factories.
    — David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Shrapnel peppered his aircraft, fatally injuring the bombardier and nearly severing the navigator’s leg.
    — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Once the plane is airborne, the passengers are able to walk through the aircraft to take photos, observe the pilots, crawl into the bombardier position in the nose of the aircraft, and visit the navigator station just below the flight deck.
    — Steven Goode, courant.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Most of the recruits were college graduates or undergraduates, initially trained to be single-engine pilots, and later as twin-engine pilots, navigators or bombardiers.
    — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017
  • During the war, he was awarded the Silver Star for helping to guide his aircraft back to its base in England after having suffered a wound in his throat from a piece of shrapnel that pierced the bombardier bubble of his aircraft.
    — Washington Post, 15 May 2018
  • To better understand the beetle’s defenses, two biologists from Kobe University fed a species of bombardier beetle to two different species of toad collected from forests in central Japan.
    — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
  • His father was a bombardier-navigator who was among the first American bombers during World War II to land at Soviet airfields to refuel and rearm, enabling the Allies to reach distant German targets.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026

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