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car bomb

NOUN
  1. a bomb placed in a car and wired to explode when the ignition is started or by remote control or by a timing device

How To Use car bomb In A Sentence

  • Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.
  • Those types of car bombs we saw in east Africa in the Embassy bombings so many years ago, those had what you call shaped charges. CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2007
  • Police said callers using recognized dissident IRA code words called Newry's hospital and local businesses after ramming the car bomb into the courthouse's front security gates. Ajc.com - News
  • A passer-by described what he saw moments after the car bomb had exploded.
  • A spokesman for the Polish-led forces reportedly said the insurgents used a car bomb, mortars and machine guns.
  • Rogue troops are even suspected of participating in the car bombing at the Jakarta stock exchange in September that killed 15 people.
  • The construction of a car bomb and its detonation outside the Australian embassy gates required money, expertise and a large amount of planning.
  • Their priority is an end to air strikes, tank attacks, artillery barrages, sniping, car bombs and roadside explosive devices.
  • On Christmas Day, at least five Iraqis and two US soldiers were killed in car bomb explosions and mortar attacks.
  • In California, West Hollywood is employing the same type of antiterrorism bollards as used by the federal government to stop car bombers.
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