How to Use unexploded in a Sentence

unexploded

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• There are unexploded World War II-era bombs in the ground.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
• An unexploded shell head in a front yard in the village.
  — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
• More than 79 years since the end of the war, unexploded bombs from the intense airstrikes are still found across Japan today.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
• One of the photos shows an unexploded bomblet about the size of a soda bottle on the ground near the front entrance.
  — Michael Biesecker, Erika Kinetz, Beatrice Dupuy, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2022
• At the end of the war, unused and unexploded bombs and chemical weapons had to be disposed of.
  — Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023
• The weapons are banned by much of the world because unexploded bomblets can pose risks to civilians years after the weapon is fired.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Even when combat ends in Ukraine's fields and towns, danger still lurks in the form of mines and unexploded ordnance.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
• More than 70 years after the end of the War, unexploded bombs keep turning up in Germany.
  — Fox News, 19 Nov. 2019
• The dud rate refers to the share of munitions that remain unexploded.
  — John Hudson, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• The weapons, banned by more than 100 countries, can leave unexploded bomblets that can kill or maim civilians.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• An unexploded missile stuck in the ground in a wheat field in Mykolayiv, southern Ukraine, last week.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
• And aid groups had warned that the jungles of Kayah were now littered with unexploded ordnance.
  — Yan Naing, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• Build a stadium next to a naval base right on the coastline where unexploded World War II bombs are still found.
  — SI.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• The company had to remove unexploded World War II shells at the site.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• From the ground around the command post protruded the fins of unexploded ordnance.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• Birch said that more unexploded missiles and bombs have fallen in Gaza than anywhere in the world since at least the Second World War.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
• Before any of that can happen, the Army would need to clean up unexploded ordnance from its tests, which could be costly and take a while.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 3 July 2018
• As such, crews will need to safely clear the area of any unexploded ordnances before opening it up to the public.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• The coalition’s unexploded bombs are part of a wider problem in Mosul.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2017
• A day later a second, unexploded bomb was found buried 23 feet into the ground.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• Hikers are warned to stay on the trails in case unexploded ordnance remains.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2021
• Where wheat and grapes once grew, unexploded rockets sprout from the ground at odd angles, reminders of the vicious fighting that tore through the area in the autumn.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• At least 60 civilians have been killed, along with the two de-miners, by the unexploded ordnance left behind.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2019
• There are hundreds of hectares filled with mines and unexploded ordnance.
  — Oleksandr Chubko Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• Two small unexploded rockets were also filmed at the scene.
  — Time, 7 Nov. 2021
• On its second day, an unexploded pipe bomb was discovered on the grounds.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2020
• Dozens of large bins were filled with unexploded pyrotechnics after the tragedy.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• Over the course of a week, in five districts of Kyiv, children and their parents are offered safety lessons about mines and unexploded ordnance.
  — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022
• Allied bombers dropped 165 bombs on the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, and at least seven of them may still lie buried and unexploded amid the ruins.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 8 July 2019
• An unexploded American bomb was unearthed in Mainz, Germany, around the same time.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024