How to Use cluster bomb in a Sentence

cluster bomb

noun
  • The cluster bombs help Kyiv hold the line, for the time being.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • Last month, cluster bombs left over from the 2006 war killed a man and a boy.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Human rights groups are right to note the danger of cluster bombs to civilians.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 7 July 2023
  • And we're told this is one of many Russian cluster bombs found here in the Kharkiv area.
    — CBS News, 9 July 2023
  • One cluster bomb might contain anywhere from a scant handful to hundreds of bomblets.
    — Rachel Lance, Wired, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Meanwhile, missile tails and cluster bomb canisters poke out of fields like lawn darts.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Lebanon still has a long way to go, particularly in the south, where mines and cluster bombs still kill and maim.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • With mines and cluster bombs widely scattered, normal harvests seem far in the future.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Some of these weapons — including land mines and cluster bombs — had been rejected by many nations.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The ban against cluster bombs is a case where the ship of good intentions hits the iceberg of reality.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • After he was rescued and taken a few hundred meters back from the front line, he was hit by shrapnel from a cluster bomb.
    — Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Artem Sokolov was with friends on a playground near their home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, when cluster bombs rained down around them.
    — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • The people most threatened by more cluster bombs are the same people Ukrainian forces are trying to protect.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 7 July 2023
  • Putin also insisted Russia has not resorted to cluster bombs so far.
    — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • Some of the worst mass-casualty attacks of the war have been inflicted by Russian cluster bombs.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2023
  • Another night, a cluster bomb exploded above the sorting station.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • There has also been evidence of cluster bomb use, banned by most countries in civilian environments.
    — al, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Iraq, where there were no new cluster bomb attacks reported last year, saw 15 people killed and 25 wounded.
    — Time, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The report said the ammunition included cluster bombs and air mines dropped during the fighting.
    — Toqa Ezzidin, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • The United States is not providing Ukraine with cluster bombs intended to be dropped from planes.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • One boy, Artem Sokolov, 11, of Kharkiv, suffered injuries to his left arm and hand in a cluster bomb attack.
    — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • During the 2000s, a movement began to ban cluster bomb-type munitions.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
  • The Biden administration is weighing whether to supply Kyiv with cluster bombs.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
  • The same strategy was used by proponents of the treaties that banned chemical and biological weapons, land mines and cluster bombs.
    — Rick Gladstone, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
  • All of this adds to the skepticism of humanitarian groups, who warn that cluster bombs have already killed and will kill more civilians in this conflict.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2023
  • Iran and Israel have previously accused each other of using cluster bombs.
    — CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Israeli forces dropped cluster bombs, many of which failed to detonate, during the 2006 war with Hezbollah.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Prospectors – Spawns three powerful cluster bombs on detonation which do larger damage per shot in a much larger area.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Ultimately, the choice to send cluster munitions, or cluster bombs, to Ukraine could be seen as a kind of resignation.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2023
  • Amnesty International said a Russian cluster bomb fell on a Ukrainian preschool.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022

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