How to Use car bomb in a Sentence

car bomb

noun
  • Once, someone had called and said there was a car bomb in his house.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2022
  • But by the end of his stay, a car bomb kills her and shatters him.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
  • On the day of her wedding, the woman is killed in a car bomb.
    — New York Times, 22 June 2021
  • The upper walls were pockmarked by car bomb fragments from bomb blasts.
    — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 4 Sep. 2019
  • This, despite the car bomb in Iraq that took the lives of eight in his platoon.
    — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2022
  • Filiponenko was also killed with a car bomb.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Filiponenko was also killed with a car bomb.
    — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Last week, a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Rome.
    — Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Ussayid's father -- had been killed in a car bomb, one of many that barely made the news back then.
    — Arwa Damon, CNN, 11 Oct. 2020
  • But the review of the footage found no evidence that the vehicle was a car bomb.
    — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
  • It too was led with a car bomb that breached the complex’s perimeter before gunmen stormed the buildings.
    — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2020
  • If that were the case, Quan was taking Michael out for Irish car bombs later.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In April, at least four people were killed in a car bomb attack in Sadr City.
    — NBC News, 19 July 2021
  • The nephew disavows knowledge of the car bomb but says Carter stole the crypto money from the school.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • His unit was in western Iraq, at a time of fierce fighting against insurgent forces and car bombs.
    — Quil Lawrence, NPR, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The peril each poses to our democracy is more far-reaching than a car bomb or a missile.
    — Michael Sebastian, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The men had received intelligence reports that a white Kia might be used as a car bomb.
    — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2020
  • She was killed in a shop in the town when a car bomb thought to have been planted by loyalist terrorists exploded.
    — Kitty Donaldson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2022
  • Two civilians were killed and 24 wounded by the initial car bomb attack, Khogyani said.
    — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2020
  • When Arthur is found guilty, the courthouse is attacked by a car bomb, leaving half of Harvey’s face burned.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Caught fleeing London after planting four car bombs in the city, the Prices are detained at a man’s prison.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The men had contended that the shooting began when a car that matched the description of a possible car bomb would not slow down.
    — Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Last week, a car bomb in Logar, a province just south of Kabul, killed more than 20 people.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2021
  • 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
  • On top of the explosive secrets, a car bomb shatters the windows of the Sistine Chapel.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • This year, on May 8, as students at a girls school were leaving the building for the day, a car bomb detonated.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The explosion was caused by a car bomb followed by two IED explosions.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The car bomb killed 29 people, among them two Spanish tourists, six teenagers, six children and a woman pregnant with twins.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • After his best friend Nahem was killed by a car bomb, Hadi had gone to the mortuary to collect his friend’s body.
    — Roy Scranton, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Every time a gangster is gunned down or a car bomb goes off in the streets of Corsica, the local channel flashes footage of the crime scene.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 May 2024

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