How To Use Unexploded In A Sentence
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It was not unknown for an unexploded portion of an old charge to remain dormant but active for years under such conditions.
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The area is still littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance.
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An unexploded bomb belt was also found close by.
Times, Sunday Times
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The minehunters had been in the area clearing unexploded weapons, including mines, from the approaches to the port.
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An unexploded bomb is lodged ominously in the courtyard, a neat visual allegory for the sense of imminent threat in the film.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two of his colleagues had died and a second, unexploded bomb had been spotted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Investigators found two unexploded devices next to the pipe bomb in a roadside bin.
The Sun
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In Basrah, Red Cross instructor was conducting mine and unexploded ordnance awareness activities with schoolchildren.
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An army bomb squad was scrambled to dispose of an unexploded mortar shell found poking out of a rabbit hole on Easter Sunday.
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Workmen digging up a front garden got a fright when they discovered an unexploded Second World War bomb.
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The soldier picked up the unexploded bomb and hurled it away into the safety of the forest.
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He called out to them to watch out for the unexploded mine.
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But, I thought you couldn’t call it ‘receivership’ either, because those all trillions and trillions of imaginary dollars in notional value Credit Default Swaps have to pay out for banks that go into ‘recievership’ and to have those unexploded CDS liabilities go from imaginary to real would be the world financial system equivalent of Global Thermonuclear War.
Matthew Yglesias » Eisinger and Salmon on Bank Nationalization
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Dated 13 May, it shows unexploded munitions covering large populated areas of Iraq.
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The detonation of an unexploded bomb discovered along with the German skeletons sends its fragments across the town, causing damage that is more symbolic than physical.
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When we were told by the police that an unexploded bomb had been found, they said there was no real panic but advised us to keep the children away from the houses.
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In their civilian jobs, they work for a contractor clearing weapons ranges of unexploded munitions.
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Even if the bombers don't directly target civilians, the unexploded bomblets stay on the ground as land mines, and pose a continuing threat to civilians.
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At a school in Savannakhet's Atsaphangthong district, UXO Lao staffers lead elementary and middle school children in songs about the dangers of unexploded ordnance and put on a puppet show about a little boy who loses an eye in a bombie explosion.
USATODAY.com - 30-year-old bombs still very deadly in Laos
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There are an estimated 110 million unexploded landmines in war zones in 64 countries around the globe.
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An unexploded bomb belt was also found close by.
Times, Sunday Times
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In bullets and cannon shells, the amount aerosolised is 40-70 per cent, leaving pieces and unexploded shells in the environment, to provide new sources of radioactive dust and contamination of the groundwater from dissolved depleted uranium metal long after the battles are over, as reported in a 2003 report by the UN Environmental Program on Yugoslavia.
International Doctors for D.U. (Depleted Uranium)
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But Brooks was able to get another one out untorn and into the acid unexploded, where it straightened out, ready to be preserved for decades.
Parasite Rex
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Yesterday's unexploded bomb in London would only have deepened it.
Times, Sunday Times
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The curator of the Museum of Unexploded Bombs is not, as you might expect him to be, a nervous man.
The Museum of Unexploded Bombs « Squares of Wheat
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Nearly half the residents of the German city of Koblenz are being forced to leave their homes this weekend after the discovery of a 2-ton, unexploded World War II bomb, marking the biggest bomb-related evacuation in Germany's post-war history.
German City to Evacuate as 2-Ton Bomb Is Defused
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Here in Britain, the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal teams are still dealing with unexploded bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe.
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The work of clearing and disposing of the mines, shells and unexploded bombs around Kabul Airport never ends.
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There is a significant ‘dud rate’ of about 5% which leaves many unexploded bomblets littering the ground with the potential to explode years later.
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The US military found an unexploded bomb outside another church nearby.
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Army bomb squad experts rushed to Cranfield on Monday after workmen unearthed an unexploded mortar.
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Much was seized for food by a starving population, and much became the casualty of unexploded mines and bombs.
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But the mass of warm, moist tropical air carried in an old hurricane can hang in the atmosphere like an unexploded bomb.
Times, Sunday Times
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A two-man recompression chamber was provided, as was a protective suit which would be worn by a sailor called to inspect and destroy unexploded ordnance.
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Unexploded cluster bomblets will harm thousands more.
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Investigators found two unexploded devices next to the pipe bomb in a roadside bin.
The Sun
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Whenever a contractor digs into Berlin at a building site, he may dig up an unexploded bomb, exhume corpses, or liberate the fear trapped in a buried air raid shelter.
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A couple of unexploded mortars are also found and dealt with before the convoy swings for home, moving with extreme caution.
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An unexploded bomb from the Second World War was uncovered by a gardener as he fixed a pensioner's fence.
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A number of earlier explanations for the sinking included an accidental collision with an unexploded sea mine left over from the Korean War.
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unexploded bomblets known in Laos as `bombies' caused farmers to fear cultivating their fields
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In the process, many civilians were killed by unexploded shells.
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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The area is littered with unexploded bombs used in target practice by the RAF during the Second World War.
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In Basrah, Red Cross instructor was conducting mine and unexploded ordnance awareness activities with schoolchildren.
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Problems included lack of aid, degraded water systems and unexploded bombs.
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We defuse and dispose of 300 unexploded shells a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even today, farmers in Belgium and Northern France plough up an annual ‘iron harvest’ of unexploded shells from World War I, and occasional deaths do result.
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In November he and his crew helped a fishing vessel deal with an unexploded bomb.
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In March this year, two building workers were killed after they unearthed an unexploded shell.
Times, Sunday Times
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an unexploded bomb
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By this time next year all debris and unexploded bombs will have been removed from the river.
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It was a deadly junkyard full of unexploded ordnances and mines, destroyed aircraft, hangars and gutted buildings.
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French developers building homes or roads on land which was once the scene of fierce fighting have to check the ground for unexploded bombs and gas shells.
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Preferably taking the path less mined with unexploded incendiaries.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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Whereas mines are factory made products, which can be neutralised by following known and relatively simple safety procedures, unexploded ordnance and booby traps must be treated individually and can be unstable and unpredictable.
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Extensive ground battles also left a staggering amount of unexploded artillery and mortar shells, mines, rockets, grenades and other devices.
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One early game was interrupted after an unexploded land mine was discovered at silly mid-on.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other tasks included identifying and isolating minefields and unexploded ordnance that ringed the base.
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Poverty drives people to search for scrap metal, and instead they find unexploded ordnance.
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Unexploded cluster bombs are strewn throughout the area.
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Investigators found two unexploded devices next to the pipe bomb in a roadside bin.
The Sun
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Our bomb disposal teams are defusing explosives and unexploded mines at sea.
The Sun
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Suddenly, this "realistic" minor masterpiece jolts into expressionism with a remarkable series of composed images that find Sammy more ogreishly dominated by the ticking clock -- a device conveying a double meaning in a scenario about British officers striving to learn how to dismantle unexploded "Jerry" bombs without incurring new casualties.
Archive 2008-10-12
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The soldier picked up the unexploded bomb and hurled it away into the safety of the forest.
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This underworld is also bringing to the surface a plethora of weaponry, unexploded bombs, rotting gas masks, first aid kits and ration packs, unopened since the day they were left by a defeated army.
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According to Oxfam there are some 50 to 100 victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance every week.
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Scrap metal dealers, many from neighboring Vietnam, offer 2,000 kip (about 20 cents) per bombie and sometimes lend scavengers metal detectors to scour the forests for unexploded ordnance.
USATODAY.com - 30-year-old bombs still very deadly in Laos
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The same application could be useful for disposing of unexploded bombs and landmines.
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In their civilian jobs, they work for a contractor clearing weapons ranges of unexploded munitions.
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The flags can only be lowered and the ranges declared open to the public once all the surrounding byways, tracks and roads have been checked and cleared of any unexploded munitions.
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There had earlier been a number of explanations suggested for the sinking, including an accidental collision with an unexploded sea mine left over from the Korean War.
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There was traffic disruption after bomb disposal experts were called out to remove an unexploded mortar shell found dumped in a ditch.
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One early game was interrupted after an unexploded land mine was discovered at silly mid-on.
Times, Sunday Times
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The surrounding area was littered with unexploded ammunition.
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He spoke wistfully of the war when his father was able to run out between air raids and plunder unexploded bombs.
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Two set construction workers were killed by an unexploded land mine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Others were walking in their fields and accidentally stepped on an unexploded bomblet from a cluster bomb.
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He called out to them to watch out for the unexploded mine.
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Why was Frank Mace sitting astride an unexploded mine, and how did it come to be washed up on a New Plymouth beach?
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They then proceed to blow the living bejesus out of themselves by returning to the blue paper of unexploded fireworks when they should still be retiring.
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The road itself is pockmarked with shell holes, while unexploded missiles and bombs stick up from the dirt of surrounding fields.
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The area is still littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance.
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Christoforakis said one quarter of the claimed land was littered with unexploded landmines, as well as with mortars and other munitions such as teargas canisters.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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There are an estimated 1,000 square miles of the country which are still littered with mines or unexploded bombs.
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Black Emperor released its last record, the brooding and orchestral "Yanqui U.X.O." a term denoting American unexploded ordinance.
Pop and Circumstance
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The collection of the Museum of Unexploded Bombs is not organised along taxonomical or historical lines, but in displays that reflect the aesthetic predilections of its curator.
July « 2010 « Squares of Wheat
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The U.S. military left firing ranges in the Panama Canal Zone littered with thousands of unexploded rounds.
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In Cyprus, he photographed housewives hanging up their washing yards from an unexploded shell.
Times, Sunday Times
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The remains of four incendiary devices were found at the scene along with four unexploded devices.
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A woman unwittingly used an unexploded shell as a vase for three decades that could have brought the house down.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police arrested him after finding that one of the mobile phones used in an unexploded bomb had been sold from his shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fire mains were ruptured, the blaze was totally out of control anyway, and there was still another unexploded bomb lodged in her hull.
ONE HUNDRED DAYS
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One early game was interrupted after an unexploded land mine was discovered at silly mid-on.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Aston told the court that the oil tank was like a large unexploded bomb.
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During the project, workmen discovered an unexploded German bomb in the garden.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our bomb disposal teams are defusing explosives and unexploded mines at sea.
The Sun
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Brave fire fighters spent the whole of last weekend containing a blaze involving unexploded highly flammable gas cylinders after a field fire spread into a Feltham motor repair garage.
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They had at least two more hours in the air with an unexploded bomb.
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He would swim far out to sea without concern yet approach an unexploded bomb only with precise assessment of the risks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Investigators found two unexploded devices next to the pipe bomb in a roadside bin.
The Sun
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The soldier picked up the unexploded bomb and hurled it away into the safety of the forest.
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There are still some unexploded bombs to be found among the wreckage.
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The soldier picked up the unexploded bomb and hurled it away into the safety of the forest.
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He called cops who confirmed it was an unexploded 1.5kg shell.
The Sun
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Charred remains of the boat, a burned octant, and a few unexploded cartridges were all that remained of the meager outfit upon which they depended to take them to the mouth of the river, a distance of over 250 miles.
Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
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We are calling on the British Government to commit to clearing up unexploded ordnance, including the cluster bomblets that have been left behind.
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Compared with landmines, unexploded ordnance is not only more visible, but also easier and cheaper to remove.
