How to Use bombardier in a Sentence

bombardier

noun

• The bombardier is not afraid to go deep, and has the arm strength to back up the bravado.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 24 Aug. 2017
• The bombardier spied a brief hole in the clouds north of the aiming point by the harbor.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 2 Aug. 2017
• Foulkes, as the bombardier, along with the nose gunner were told to bail out first.
  — Karen Brainard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 May 2017
• As the bomb bay doors opened, anti-aircraft fire, called flak, jolted the plane, but the bombardier managed to pull the lever.
  — National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2017
• The bombardier was captured after his plane crashed into the ocean.
  — Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 18 June 2018
• The book was based on the writer’s experiences as a World War II bombardier.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 13 Dec. 1999
• The bombardier cars, though, have very quick and simple ramps that aren’t mechanical and aren’t noisy.
  — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 23 May 2017
• The bombardier, Grunder said, saved his life by tying a tourniquet.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• The fact that the bombardiers are Saudi hardly exculpates the United States.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2019
• The bombardier applied a tourniquet and shot him with morphine but the leg could not be saved; it was amputated the next day.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• That veteran, 95-year-old Don Foulkes of Fallbrook, told students about being a bombardier on a B-24.
  — Karen Brainard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 May 2017
• After washing out of pilot school, he was trained as a bombardier and then assigned to a B-24 Liberator.
  — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Asian bombardier beetles aren’t the only creatures in nature who can survive being swallowed.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 21 Feb. 2018
• During the war, he was awarded the Silver Star for helping to guide his aircraft back to its base in England after having suffered a wound in his throat from a piece of shrapnel that pierced the bombardier bubble of his aircraft.
  — Washington Post, 15 May 2018
• Once the plane is airborne, the passengers are able to walk through the aircraft to take photos, observe the pilots, crawl into the bombardier position in the nose of the aircraft, and visit the navigator station just below the flight deck.
  — Steven Goode, courant.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Christopher Abbott also secured a nomination for his portrayal of a bombardier desperate to complete his missions in the waning days of the war.
  — Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2019
• Each bomber had a 10-man crew: two pilots, a bombardier, a navigator, a radio operator, a tail gunner, a ball turret gunner, two waist gunners and a top turret gunner.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The non-wizarding world has a creature capable of similar pyrotechnics: the bombardier beetle.
  — National Geographic, 18 Nov. 2016
• To better understand the beetle’s defenses, two biologists from Kobe University fed a species of bombardier beetle to two different species of toad collected from forests in central Japan.
  — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2018
• The honor was bestowed after thousands had signed a petition asking that Mr. Johnson, a bomb-aimer during the war (the equivalent of an American bombardier), be accorded recognition in his final years as a collective tribute to the Dambusters.
  — Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• The honor was bestowed after thousands had signed a petition asking that Mr. Johnson, a bomb-aimer during the war (the equivalent of an American bombardier), be accorded recognition in his final years as a collective tribute to the Dambusters.
  — Richard Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Most of the recruits were college graduates or undergraduates, initially trained to be single-engine pilots, and later as twin-engine pilots, navigators or bombardiers.
  — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 9 June 2017
• Shrapnel peppered his aircraft, fatally injuring the bombardier and nearly severing the navigator’s leg.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• These nickel-bag bombardiers wore designer labels like sartorial armor.
  — Barry Michael Cooper, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
• Among them bombardiers, mechanics, instructors, navigators, crew chiefs, nurses, cooks.
  — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 26 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024