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Meaning bombing meaning

What does bombing mean?

bombing

— noun an attack by dropping bombs

— noun the use of bombs for sabotage; a tactic frequently used by terrorists

Synonyms bombing synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as bombing?

bombing English » English

bombardment

shelling

prang

mail bombing

bombings

bombarding

bomb

blitz

Examples bombing examples

How do I use bombing in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom denies involvement in the bombing.

American bombing of Prague on Valentine's Day 1945 was allegedly accidental.

Tom and Mary survived the bombing.

The enemies destroyed the plant by bombing.

Movie subtitles

Nothing remains but the conclusive bombing of the hills.

Bombing and bombing.

Yes, I guess they'll come bombing, all right.

Fell leading a bombing raid upon the enemy trenches.

I want to show you my new bombing planes.

The tear bomb went off unexpectedly in the hands of the bombing squad.

Bombing pilots, attention.

Then make a dive-bombing attack.

Bombing six, stand by to peel off.

You know, this blackout in dive-bombing is a very interesting medical subject.

Provide each dive-bombing pilot with an old-fashioned stiff collar.

A couple carriers are due next month for a bombing problem.

That's really bombing.

I want to show you my new bombing planes. They're coming over.

Another, they've sent for Army bombing planes to blast Earle out.

But always after a bombing, here they are: Starved, patient, silent.

I have some rather curious information that at regular intervals six Nazi bombing planes come over and drop their deadly cargoes on non-military objectives, a meadow or a sheep folk.

Why'd they go about their business in London when the Germans were bombing?

Our air force is bombing them continuously, but that's just expediency.

You can't stay here during the bombing without a proper cellar.

First it was Hitler screaming on the radio, then the war of nerves, then the victory celebrations, then the bombing.

But bombing that nest tonight would only aggravate our problem.

But no bombing?

The chamber looked caved in from the bombing.

From the bombing.

And if bud and his gang think they can change that by bombing us, they're going to be sorely mistaken. Yeah. Real sorely.

This tear bomb went off unexpectedly in the hands of Sheriff Hartwell's bombing squad.

May be the last bombing flight I have, sir.

You are going to report a bombing score that will make history around here.

For when on active service on the 12th day of April, 1941 he, when a flying officer in the vicinity of Number 4 bombing target did engage in unauthorized low flying.

Bombing of London.

Bombing of the ports.

Guns booming and tanks rumbling after him airplanes dive-bombing at him from overhead.

The Japs are bombing Wheeler Field!

The Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor.

The charges against you of espionage and bombing are both punishable by death. Accordingly, you shall be shot.

Distant Early Warning radar, sensitive electronic devices to detect the presence of objects in the sky, including bombing planes and guided missiles and rain clouds and homing pigeons.

News and current affairs

When 52 people were killed in a suicide bombing on the London Underground the following year, the British, too, reacted with relative calm, having lived through years of Irish terrorist violence in the 1970's.

A similar suicide bombing two days later claimed the lives of 58 French soldiers.

Why should the one region - and people - who run an orderly government, are not involved in murder, attacks on mosques, and suicide bombing of schoolchildren, be penalized?

NATO's bombing was the coup de grace for an economy dying on its feet.

In 2005, more than 125 Coalition troops were killed, while suicide bombing emerged as a new and increasingly common tactic of the insurgency.

British and American negotiators secretly met with Libyan counterparts to resolve the case of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and other terrorism issues.

Trying to win hearts and minds is certainly an improvement over bombing or shooting up the local population.

Murdering more than 60 innocent young people at a summer camp with an assault rifle, after bombing a chunk of central Oslo, is, to put it mildly, morally eccentric - something most sane people would never dream of doing.

Even before America and its allies began their bombing campaign against Afghanistan's terrorist infrastructure, India's expenditures on defense were rising fast.

The presence of a Taliban truck does not justify bombing a village in which civilians are going about their daily lives.

What is true is that the Israelis lacked a coherent war plan, so that even their most purposeful bombing came off as brutally destructive (though with a deterrence payoff, as Syria's immobility showed).

The West also is not bombing Eritrea, another major source of refugees.

The goal behind the bombing of Yugoslavia, of Security Council resolution 1244 and today's provisional constitutional framework for Kosovo, was the creation of the pre-conditions for the democratic development of a multiethnic society.

Bombing is not an option for fighting terrorist cells in Hamburg, Singapore, or Detroit.

YEREVAN - Once again, the issue of bombing or sanctioning Iran has resurfaced.

He also visited the UN compound in the center of Gaza to express the UN's grave concern over its bombing.

But that danger becomes far more acute in a combat zone, where nuclear materials and weapons are at risk of theft, and reactors can become bombing targets.

Before Clinton, President Ronald Reagan ordered the bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya in 1986 in retaliation for the bombing of a German disco in which several Americans were killed.

Had the British government pursued peace and the destruction of the IRA in Northern Ireland by bombing Catholic Derry, would that have alienated or won over Catholic opinion?

That happened to Yue Zhengzhong, who sent an intercepted letter to the US Embassy praising the 1999 bombing of China's Embassy in Belgrade.

Realpolitik brought us the bombing of Cambodia and the mass killings under Pol Pot.

But the result of intervention was that US forces became just one more target, culminating in the 1983 bombing of a US Marine barracks that killed 241 American soldiers.

The repercussions of bombing Iran should be clear: closure of the Straits of Hormuz, skyrocketing oil prices, possible retaliation against Israel (regardless of the origin of the attack), and even greater turmoil in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sudan bore the brunt of US retaliation, when President Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of an apparently harmless pharmaceutical factory near Khartoum as retaliation for an Osama bin Laden sponsored terrorist attack.