How to Use suicide bomber in a Sentence

suicide bomber

noun
  • When a suicide bomber killed a friend of Hikade's who was a mom of three, she was shaken.
    — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
  • That then when the suicide bomber went off, not only did Marine Sgt.
    — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The play, which was about suicide bombings, was itself attacked by a suicide bomber.
    — Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The image showed what appeared to be Walker wearing a suicide bomber vest.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Her husband had come home from so many deployments to Iraq, even surviving a suicide bomber.
    — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
  • The scene of desperation quickly turned into one of horror when a suicide bomber attacked.
    — Farnoush Amiri, Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Across the street, a suicide bomber had run into a bar called Paddy’s and detonated a device.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Naqvi said police investigators also confirmed the blast was caused by a suicide bomber.
    — NPR, 11 Nov. 2025
  • In the same month as the prison break, a suicide bomber got inside police headquarters and killed the provincial commander.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • But Raziq beat back the suicide bombers and brought stability to Kandahar.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • In November, a suicide bomber struck outside a court in the capital, killing 12 people.
    — Munir Ahmed, Arkansas Online, 8 Feb. 2026
  • In November, a suicide bomber struck outside a court in the capital, killing 12 people.
    — Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Kent’s first wife, Shannon, also wore the uniform and was killed in Syria by a suicide bomber in 2019.
    — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Smoke rises from cities; the highways are filled with walls of wrecked cars; suicide bombers dive into a crowd lined up for water rations; death squads, snipers, and mass graves dot the countryside.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • The explosion, which ripped through the mosque during Friday prayers, was caused by a suicide bomber, police told CNN.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In the deadliest of those attacks, on the eve of Purim, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside a Tel Aviv shopping mall.
    — David Crary, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The provincial police chief, Akhtar Hayat Khan, told the local news media that the explosion was set off by a suicide bomber.
    — Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • The civil war first came to Maaloula when a suicide bomber blew up the main army checkpoint protecting the town in September 2013.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In March, a suicide bomber killed five Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project in northern Pakistan.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • His wife, Shannon, a Navy cryptologist, was killed by a suicide bomber in Syria in 2019.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Still, nothing has been said officially about what may have happened to the brave Afghani girl who survived a suicide bomber as her family fled the turmoil that engulfed her home country.
    — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Hamas always identifies the dead by gender, as if to suggest that a 25-year-old woman firing a rocket or becoming a suicide bomber must be counted as a civilian.
    — Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Early in February, a suicide bomber targeted a Shia mosque in the capital, killing 31 people.
    — Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Moments earlier, a smaller bomb in a backpack was detonated by a suicide bomber in the nearby Paddy’s Pub nightclub.
    — Ap, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Related When a suicide bomber attacks the National Guard during a protest, Lee ends up shielding a young woman near the blast.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Kent knows the cost of war personally — his wife, Shannon, was killed by suicide bomber in Syria in 2019, leaving behind two boys.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • At least 26 people, including soldiers, were killed in 2024 when a suicide bomber attacked a train station in Balochistan.
    — ABC News, 24 May 2026
  • Meanwhile, his son, twenty-one years old, was tapped by Claus von Stauffenberg to be the suicide bomber in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Relatives and mourners carry the casket of a victim killed in a suicide bomber attack in Bajaur district, Pakistan, on July 31.
    — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
  • An official with the provincial government in Balochistan stated that the attack may have been carried out by a suicide bomber, though the investigation is still pending, per the Times.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026

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