How to Use suicide bomber in a Sentence

suicide bomber

noun
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  • When a suicide bomber killed a friend of Hikade's who was a mom of three, she was shaken.
    — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
  • That then when the suicide bomber went off, not only did Marine Sgt.
    — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The play, which was about suicide bombings, was itself attacked by a suicide bomber.
    — Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Meanwhile, his son, twenty-one years old, was tapped by Claus von Stauffenberg to be the suicide bomber in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • In the same month as the prison break, a suicide bomber got inside police headquarters and killed the provincial commander.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • Her husband had come home from so many deployments to Iraq, even surviving a suicide bomber.
    — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
  • The provincial police chief, Akhtar Hayat Khan, told the local news media that the explosion was set off by a suicide bomber.
    — Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 30 July 2023
  • Smoke rises from cities; the highways are filled with walls of wrecked cars; suicide bombers dive into a crowd lined up for water rations; death squads, snipers, and mass graves dot the countryside.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • Related When a suicide bomber attacks the National Guard during a protest, Lee ends up shielding a young woman near the blast.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The scene of desperation quickly turned into one of horror when a suicide bomber attacked.
    — Farnoush Amiri, Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • But Raziq beat back the suicide bombers and brought stability to Kandahar.
    — Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • In March, a suicide bomber killed five Chinese engineers working on a hydropower project in northern Pakistan.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Still, nothing has been said officially about what may have happened to the brave Afghani girl who survived a suicide bomber as her family fled the turmoil that engulfed her home country.
    — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • In the 2021 incident, a suicide bomber set off a blast near a checkpoint where Marines were checking the documents of people being allowed into the Kabul airport to escape the Taliban takeover of the country.
    — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Relatives and mourners carry the casket of a victim killed in a suicide bomber attack in Bajaur district, Pakistan, on July 31.
    — Time, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Hamas always identifies the dead by gender, as if to suggest that a 25-year-old woman firing a rocket or becoming a suicide bomber must be counted as a civilian.
    — Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2024
  • In March, five Chinese engineers in the northwest of the country were killed when a suicide bomber, who Pakistan alleged was an Afghan national, rammed a vehicle into their convoy.
    — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 5 July 2024
  • In July 2016, a suicide bomber carried out an attack near the compound, killing only himself and injuring no U.S. employees.
    — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
  • Moments earlier, a smaller bomb in a backpack was detonated by a suicide bomber in the nearby Paddy’s Pub nightclub.
    — Ap, Bloomberg.com, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In addition to child-killing, the play came with dismemberment, insanity, fellatio and rapes, with Dea violated by a son who is then blown up by a suicide bomber.
    — Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • At least 22 people were killed and more than 30 were injured when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a security forces compound in Pakistan on Tuesday, local officials said.
    — Habibullah Khan, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • His collection of on-stage collaborators (i.e., puppets) include a beer-swelling redneck yahoo and a dead, incompetent suicide bomber named Achmed, among others.
    — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Somehow, the music matches the nervous, revolutionary energy on screen: the unlikely sight of an angry Brooklyn patrolled by troops, hundreds of people clashing in the streets, a suicide bomber putting an abrupt punctuation to it all.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • This change in circumstances, however, never meant that ISIS had outright prohibited female combatants and suicide bombers.
    — Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Earlier this year, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a mosque inside a police compound in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing at least 95 people, in one of the deadliest attacks ever on Pakistan’s security forces.
    — Haq Nawaz Khan, Washington Post, 30 July 2023
  • Advertisement Prosecutors argued that Trabelsi volunteered to be a suicide bomber and insisted on it even after being discouraged by bin Laden.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • Earlier on Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near an entrance of the Interior Ministry, wounding two police officers.
    — Suzan Fraser, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Akhtar Hayat Gandapur said an initial investigation suggested a suicide bomber sneaked into the venue despite the security provided by party volunteers.
    — Anwarullah Khan and Riaz Khan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2023

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