How to Use car bomb in a Sentence

car bomb

noun

• On top of the explosive secrets, a car bomb shatters the windows of the Sistine Chapel.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
• On the day of her wedding, the woman is killed in a car bomb.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2021
• But by the end of his stay, a car bomb kills her and shatters him.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022
• This, despite the car bomb in Iraq that took the lives of eight in his platoon.
  — Mary Beth McCauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2022
• For subscribers: My cousin was killed by a car bomb in 1978.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• Once, someone had called and said there was a car bomb in his house.
  — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2022
• In years past, walls went up to protect against car bombs.
  — Nabih Bulos, latimes.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• One neighbor said there had been a car bomb near her house.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
• It is not known if the civilians were injured by the car bomb or the gunfire from U.S. Marines.
  — James Laporta, Fortune, 30 June 2020
• The nephew disavows knowledge of the car bomb but says Carter stole the crypto money from the school.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• If that were the case, Quan was taking Michael out for Irish car bombs later.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• In April, at least four people were killed in a car bomb attack in Sadr City.
  — NBC News, 19 July 2021
• But the review of the footage found no evidence that the vehicle was a car bomb.
  — New York Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• Ussayid's father -- had been killed in a car bomb, one of many that barely made the news back then.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 11 Oct. 2020
• The 2010 Times Square car bomb designed to kill and injure dozens in the beating heart of Manhattan.
  — Cyd Upson, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
• The upper walls were pockmarked by car bomb fragments from bomb blasts.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 4 Sep. 2019
• The march was triggered by a car bomb in Helmand on March 23 that killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2018
• When Arthur is found guilty, the courthouse is attacked by a car bomb, leaving half of Harvey’s face burned.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2024
• It too was led with a car bomb that breached the complex’s perimeter before gunmen stormed the buildings.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2020
• Last week, a car bomb in Logar, a province just south of Kabul, killed more than 20 people.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2021
• Two civilians were killed and 24 wounded by the initial car bomb attack, Khogyani said.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2020
• The car bombs killed hundreds and forced the government to Balkanize Baghdad with T-walls and dozens of checkpoints.
  — Nabih Bulos, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
• The initial explosion was a car bomb followed by two IEDs.
  — Valentina Di Donato, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• The men had received intelligence reports that a white Kia might be used as a car bomb.
  — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2020
• This year, on May 8, as students at a girls school were leaving the building for the day, a car bomb detonated.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• Humayun Khan, who was killed by a car bomb in 2004 while guarding the gates of his base in Iraq, saving the lives of his fellow soldiers and civilians.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2017
• The car bomb killed 29 people, among them two Spanish tourists, six teenagers, six children and a woman pregnant with twins.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• The insurgency took a toll on her family: A car bomb killed one of her brothers in 2007.
  — Alice Martins, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
• Every time a gangster is gunned down or a car bomb goes off in the streets of Corsica, the local channel flashes footage of the crime scene.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 May 2024
• The peril each poses to our democracy is more far-reaching than a car bomb or a missile.
  — Michael Sebastian, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2017

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024