bomb shelter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bomb shelter
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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From inside the public bomb shelter, we scan the sky.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
In a public bomb shelter two storeys underground, one woman lay sleeping on a bunk bed in the mid-afternoon, while another worked at their laptop.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
On Monday she relocated to the home of a teammate because she said the bomb shelter she had been using was tiny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
He then proceeded to gut the architectural gem, with reports at the time suggesting that he wanted to turn the concrete structure into a kind of modernist bomb shelter.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 11, 2025
Then I went outside and with my new birthday shovel I got back to digging the bomb shelter.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
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