How to Use suicide bomb in a Sentence

suicide bomb

noun
  • Or who knows how many travelers a terrorist can kill with a suicide bomb attack among travelers waiting around for hours at an overcrowded airport?
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Less than 24 hours later, the air outside Islamabad’s judicial complex was thick with the aftermath of a suicide bomb.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The court sided with a soldier who was badly injured when a Taliban operative working at the Bagram Airfield detonated a suicide bomb.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • At least 23 people have been killed and 71 injured after a suicide bomb attack near a railway station in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday as a train was passing through.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 24 May 2026
  • Shannon Kent, a Navy chief cryptologic technician, was killed January 16, 2019, in a suicide bomb attack in Manbij, Syria.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The three American fatalities in today’s attack in Syria are the first combat deaths in that country since 2019 when four Americans were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Manbij, Syria.
    — Benjamin Siu, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2025

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