How to Use cherry bomb in a Sentence

cherry bomb

noun
  • Ground salutes like cherry bombs are prohibited in the state.
    — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • M-80s, quarter sticks, cherry bombs and silver salutes have been banned for decades.
    — Javonte Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
  • Let the pros handle the fireworks, not teenagers with cherry bombs or firecrackers that could cause injury.
    — Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2018
  • The warehouse was full of booze owned by a liquor distributor and bottles of bourbon, scotch and gin went off like cherry bombs.
    — Michael Carey, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The national anthem, the Marseillaise, rang out, cars honked horns and cherry bombs cracks.
    — Elaine Ganley, Fox News, 15 July 2018
  • One that is retail ready is a cherry bomb barbecue sauce that infuses cherry juice infused with the smoky heat of chipotle peppers.
    — Cathy Kozlowicz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2022
  • Earlier in the day, Broshears had called the police to complain that the teens had been throwing cherry bombs into traffic.
    — Eric Markowitz, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Players acknowledge Donovan’s departure by tearing his pants off and lighting a cherry bomb under his car.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • In Pittsburgh neighborhood kids would put cherry bombs in their mailbox, and in Shaker Heights prank calls happened regularly.
    — Sarah Begley, Time, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Federal law prohibits the use of stronger explosives, including M-80s, quarter sticks, silver salutes and cherry bombs.
    — Javonte Anderson, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2019
  • Convicted of throwing a cherry bomb and sentenced to five years in federal prison (though he was ultimately pardoned), Mechanic went on the run—for 28 years.
    — Eric McQuade, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Other top sellers include the cherry bomb, chicken pesto, hot Italian, Swedish potato, pork apple, bratwurst, turkey apricot, spicy Cajun and sweet onion.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • But a 1972 decision by a federal appeals court that upheld a civil disorder conviction of man who threw a cherry bomb at a line of police officers responding to a fire at a riot on a university campus provides some guidance.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Some examples, according to the North Metro Fire District, include bottle rockets, firecrackers, Roman candles, cherry bombs and M-80s.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 25 June 2026

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