Bomb

The size of the ground hole crater from the blast indicates it was a bomb.

During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.

If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.

"The hard Brexiteers have built a bomb under the UK automotive industry and the EU have lit it," they said.

Mr. Gaetz’s loyalty to Mr. Trump, and willingness to toss proverbial bombs in Washington’s corridors of power, has shown no bounds, at least in public.

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air / Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there

The mineworkers are setting their bombs.

The children are playing with water bombs in the garden.

Activists threw paint bombs at the famous artwork.

That turkey fryer is a bomb waiting to go off.

The gas leak tragically turned the house into a bomb.

He just dropped a bomb.

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Projection problems plagued Countess’ London premiere on January 5, 1967, Jerry Epstein recalled, and it was perhaps an omen, for reaction by critics afterward was swift and immediate: The film was a bomb.

The movie was a bomb and so was my next film, Balboa, in which I played a scheming real estate tycoon.

The movie was a bomb, but it put the band before an even larger audience.

Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.

We′ve got the money and it just feels ridiculous to let you drive around in that old bomb.

After two weeks of driving it she knew the car was a bomb and she did not need anyone saying it to her. The only one allowed to pick on her car was her. Piece of crap car[…]

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When Kiley presented Blackpool with the custom shotgun, he said, “This must′ve cost a bomb.”

'You′ve already spent a bomb!' 'Not on it, Sal — under it. Presents!' As we eventually staggered up to bed, Sally said to me, 'I hope to God he's not been spending a bomb on presents, too.[…]'

The kids cost a bomb to feed, they eat all the time.

2011, Bibe, A Victim, page 38, He had recently exchanged his old bike for a new, three speed racer, which cost a bomb and the weekly payment were becoming difficult, with the dangers of repossession.

Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.

It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.

Normally very controlled, he dropped the F-bomb and cursed the paparazzi.

With five seconds remaining, Smith received the inbounds pass and launched a bomb that dropped through the net to give his team an 80-79 victory.

Give me two bucks, you take a puff and pass my bomb back / Suck up that dank like a Slurpee, the serious / Bomb will make a niggy go delirious like Eddie Murphy

A bomb for this study is defined as one in which the deepening rate is the geostrophic equivalent of at least 12 mb in 12 h at 45ºN.

The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb.

a Pillar of Iron […] Which if you had ſtrucke […] it would make a great Bombe in the Chamber beneath.

In clear contravention of the International Code of Conduct for Swimming Baths, a teenager had entered the pool by performing a bomb.

2000, Canadian Peace Research Institute, Canadian Peace Research and Education Association, Peace Research, Volumes 32-33, page 65, 15 May: US jets bombed air-defence sites north of Mosul, as the Russian Foreign Ministry accused the US and Britain of intentionally bombing civilian targets. (AP)

Italy had bombed cities in the Ethiopian war; Italy and Germany had bombed civilians in the Spanish Civil War; at the start of World War II German planes dropped bombs on Rotterdam in Holland, Coventry in England, and elsewhere.

Essendon was bombed in the early hours of 3 September 1916; a few houses and part of the church were destroyed, and two sisters killed.

School days have been missed or cut short many times to accommodate soccer travel through the years, but this return felt different. Photos posted on his social media documenting the experience were seen by classmates, many of whom bombed him with questions about his future in the sport.

I was bombing down the road on my motorbike.

The calendar was selling Moctezuma beer, so I had one of them in her honor while Murray bombed himself with the mezcal.

TED: The champagne you ordered, sir. MAN: No time for this. Leave it on ice. WIFE: But I want some now... MAN: There'll be plenty for you at the party, baby, you can bomb yourself all you want at the party.

It is often used to collect other writer's tags, and future plans for bombing and piecing.

I totally bombed that exam.

The nondiscrimination measures bombed at the polls, losing 18 percent to 82 percent. One gay activist in the city told GCN, "We got whupped."

So Hall quit the job, turned in the company car and went to Chicago, where as a stand-up comic he bombed several times before he was discovered by Nancy Wilson, who took him on the road — where he bombed again before a room of Republicans—and then to Los Angeles.

2000, Carmen Infantino, Jon B. Cooke (interviewer), The Carmen Infantino Interview, in Jon B. Cooke, Neal Adams, Comic Book Artist Collection, page 12, Carmen: […] Then it bombed and it bombed badly. After a few more issues I asked Mike what was happening and he said, “I′m trying everything I can but it′s just not working.” So I took him off the book and he left. That was it.

She was the reason why he bombed the interview. He just couldn′t seem to get her out of his mind.

When things weren't going Alison's way at work — some editor wanted something changed or her computer bombed again — she'd cuss and yell at whoever happened to be in the way.

What over-charged piece of melancholie / Is this, breakes in betweene my wishes thus, / With bombing sighs?

Have you tried the new tacos from that restaurant? They're pretty bomb!

Pakistan and India both have the Bomb now.