How To Use Doodlebug In A Sentence
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Now 60 years on, after watching countless documentaries about D-Day and doodlebugs, he is desperate to find out what happened to the infant.
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You may or may not have heard about this, but if not, just remember the sound a doodlebug makes in the few seconds before it explodes.
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Its father handed him to Mr King, then a 15-year-old bread delivery boy, after the doodlebug crashed into land behind Old Tye Avenue, Biggin Hill.
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The old doodlebugs which we feared are toys by comparison.
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The doodlebug's flaming engine cut out and it turned to glide in our direction.
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And that was dreadful, because we were bombarded with these doodlebugs and we were instructed during the night.
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In 1943, I joined the Royal Marines at the Commando Training Unit, Lympstone, Devon, so I missed the doodlebugs and most of the V2 rockets.
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It took a hit in 1940 and again in 1944, when a doodlebug killed five ARP wardens.
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In the woolly, soft-focused world of Britain's public information business, the answer seems no less obscure than in those hazy, black - and-white days of the doodlebug.
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Unconventional pet names such as 'huggle wuggles', 'cuddly beast', and 'doodlebug' are cropping up on lastminute. com, as customers send gifts to their better halves.
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`It's long range and, unlike the V1, which I understand has been named the doodlebug, it is totally silent.
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In his first, wartime diaries, where he journeyed round Britain listing buildings for rescue by the National Trust, bombing raids and doodlebugs meant that death was in the air even though he was only in his thirties.
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So began London's doodlebug summer, with more than 2000 flying bombs launched from occupied France creating sudden havoc and destruction, especially across the south and east of the city.
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We were free - no more bombs, doodlebugs or air raid sirens.
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He quotes from the diary: ‘a doodlebug comes over our bus and we all crouch down to avoid the shattering of the window-glass.’
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In 1958, he and I worked ten days on and five days off for what was called a doodlebug outfit, or seismograph crew, laying out rubber cable and seismic jugs in bays and swamps all along the Louisiana-Texas coastline.
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Olimar's Notes: While life-forms that excrete foul musks to warn of danger are not rare, the doodlebug is the only species known to release flatulence when active above ground.
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The doodlebug bomb which hit Harrington Road and destroyed the Albert Tavern on July 9, 1944, was the 78th out of 142 V1s to strike Croydon.
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Ack-ack guns were operated by women for the first time in the war, preventing many home strikes by doodlebugs and the Luftwaffe.
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Londoners under attack would come to know it as the doodlebug or buzz bomb, so called for the mechanical hum it made before dropping on its target.
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But the rocket, known to the British as the "buzz bomb" or the "doodlebug," was also easily spotted and comparatively slow, making it vulnerable to antiaircraft fire and enemy fighters.
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Under the van Mr King was holding his head in his hands as a one-metre section of the doodlebug embedded itself in the vehicle.
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“Mm,” I grunt, not bothering to ask him to drop the “doodlebug” thing for the millionth time.
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In many ways the crowd at a football match is like a World War Two doodlebug - it's when it stops making a noise that those on the ground should panic.
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‘One night we held our breath as a doodlebug putt-putted overhead,’ said Sheila.
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Originally set in a military hospital during the Blitz in 1941, the film relocates the action to a civilian emergency hospital during the doodlebug campaign of 1944.
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The device was the notorious doodlebug, or buzz bomb.
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Born in 1930, Pinter was old enough to see and remember fascist actions in the East End and, of course, to be around when fascism stopped marching and started dropping bombs and launching doodlebugs.
