How to Use car bomb in a Sentence

car bomb

noun
  • Filiponenko was also killed with a car bomb.
    — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Filiponenko was also killed with a car bomb.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Last week, a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Rome.
    — Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Dwelling on the magnitude of and motivations behind all those car bombs, and on the child amid the wreckage, horror sets in.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 24 May 2026
  • Not long after, it is reported that Ahmad was killed with a car bomb and Raj is arrested for murder.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 28 May 2026
  • Three car bombs—two in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and one in Mosul—killed at least twenty-six people.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Specials, including $6 Proper 12 and $8 car bombs, are available all day.
    — Samantha Nelson, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Authorities have not yet released an official death toll but among those killed was Mali’s defense minister who died when a car bomb targeted his home.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The answer came when police found an online statement written by 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, who died in the car bomb blast.
    — Curt Devine, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Colombian cartels did the same thing in the 1990s with car bombs, assassinations and attacks on the military.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Earlier reports by Pakistani state-run media and two security officials said a car bomb had caused the explosion.
    — NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Season 10 of Tyler Perry’s Sistas picks up with the gut-wrenching aftermath of a car bomb, and the fallout is far from over.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Police found documents about subjects including Nazi Germany, the Rwandan genocide and car bombs on his devices.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2025
  • After a brief respite last year, homicides rose 40% in the first seven months of 2025, while last week explosions from car bombs rocked Guayaquil and killed one person.
    — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In the 1980s and 1990s, Maoist insurgents planted car bombs and massacred tens of thousands of civilians.
    — Antonia Mufarech, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026
  • The base in Afghanistan where Ollis was stationed was breached by a car bomb and a group of fighters wearing suicide vests on one day in 2013, according to the Army.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In December the group detonated a car bomb in a municipality located along a top cocaine-trafficking route, killing four police officers.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The explosion came just four days after a car bomb exploded outside the Red Fort Metro Station in New Delhi, killing 13 people.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 15 Nov. 2025
  • To heighten security, sharpshooters were placed on rooftops, attendees passed through metal detectors, nearby businesses were closed, and the Shubert complex’s two lowest underground parking levels were blocked off due to the risk of car bombs.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There ⁠were two car bombs on Tuesday in Moscow — one that detonated in the morning in eastern Moscow and one that was identified by security services in southwestern Moscow.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 10 June 2026
  • Police in Northern Ireland on Sunday declared a security alert in the town of Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast, after reports that a car bomb exploded near a police station.
    — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Three people were killed by a bomb on Wednesday in Moscow after two police officers approached a man acting suspiciously near the site where a senior general was killed two days ago by a car bomb that Russia said was planted by Ukrainian intelligence.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Season 3 concludes with the series’ most shocking finale yet—which is saying something, considering the previous two seasons ended with a car bomb explosion and a dead POTUS, respectively.
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • One person was killed by a car bomb in Moscow's eastern suburbs early on Tuesday, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation announced in a statement, with an investigation now underway to ascertain the details of the incident.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 9 June 2026
  • For the past two years, Mordisco’s group has also used drone attacks and car bombs, to respond to an offensive from the Colombian military in the Micay Canyon, a remote area covered with coca fields that is under the FARC-EMC’s grip.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • An investigator works at the scene where Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Russian General Staff's army operational training directorate, was reportedly killed in a car bomb in Moscow, Russia, December 22, 2025.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025

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