1
: a bin or compartment for storage
especially
: one on shipboard for the ship's fuel
2
a
: a protective embankment or dugout
especially
: a fortified chamber mostly below ground often built of reinforced concrete and provided with embrasures
b
: a sand trap or embankment constituting a hazard on a golf course
Examples of bunker in a Sentence
Noun
The ammunition is stored in concrete bunkers.
Verb
She bunkered her tee shot.
They bunkered just enough coal to get them to the port.
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Brian Mann, NPR, 28 Jan. 2025
On top of that, hundreds of aging concrete bunkers, built during the reign of paranoid Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, dot the island.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2025
John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
Fact check: Video shows Benjamin Netanyahu running in 2021, not fleeing to bunker in 2024
The X post seen in the Instagram post does not provide evidence supporting the claim that the head of Netanyahu's medical team announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
—Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Grizzly said during the day his team uses improvised bunkers to keep their weapons hidden from Russian drones and artillery that operate from the far side of the river.
—Brian Mann, NPR, 28 Jan. 2025
On top of that, hundreds of aging concrete bunkers, built during the reign of paranoid Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, dot the island.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
As the snow fell and his family bunkered down, his young siblings relished the first.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
Fact check: Video shows Benjamin Netanyahu running in 2021, not fleeing to bunker in 2024
The X post seen in the Instagram post does not provide evidence supporting the claim that the head of Netanyahu's medical team announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
—Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Bunker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bunker. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.
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