NOUN
- 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.