bombing
[ˈbɑmɪŋ]
Definition:
1. An attack by dropping bombs.
2. The use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists.
'bombing' example sentence:
- One day, the bombing stopped and the soldiers left.
- The rate of bombing has slowed considerably.
- They agreed to desist from the bombing campaign.
- The bombing attack struck fear into their hearts.
- They built the library under the ground to keep it safe from bombing.
- He is thought to have planned a prison breakout of militants suspected of the July bombing.
- Bombing had made roads and railways unusable.
- They need to be careful because they may be killed in another bombing.
- Lyndon B. Johnson was ratcheting up the Vietnam War, so the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was passed in 1964, which authorized bombing raids on Cambodia.
- After the recent bombing, the airlines said that we'd have to check all parcels; they told us we had to do it.
- There was a call today to reopen the investigation into the bombing.
- Winston Churchill once walked its corridors and Japanese emissaries met here with Secretary of State Cordell Hull after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
- Last November, Argentine Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral issued international arrest warrants for eight men wanted in connection to the bombing.
- The bombing was the latest in a spate of terrorist attacks.
- Continuous bombing spearheaded the way to occupying the city.
- The bombing was a spectacular act of sabotage.
- The bombing was in revenge for the assassination.
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids.
- The bombing has been far more widespread than the military will admit.
- Nobody has claimed responsibility for the bombing.
- The United Nations has pleaded for a halt to the bombing.
- They were bombing down the road at about 80 miles an hour.
- They carried out a bombing raid on enemy bases.
- Children were evacuated from London to escape the bombing.
- News of the bombing extinguished all hope of peace.
- To minimize collateral damage, maximum precision in bombing was required.
- Aerial bombing of rebel positions is continuing.
- Early reports suggest the hand of rebel forces in the bombings.
- The city was subjected to heavy bombing.
- During the bombing only one house was spared.