bomb site
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"The only way I could describe how our house looked was like a bomb site," explains Rob Davies, 37.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
But the bomb site still looked like a bomb site: bits of headlight housings, things that looked like spark plugs, curled pieces of rubber that I assumed had once been tires.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2018
North Korean state media reported over the weekend that the country has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear bomb site for later in May.
From Reuters • May 13, 2018
“We bought in this neighborhood because it was safe and quiet,” said Hume, who is 25 and lives five doors down from the bomb site with her husband, Chris, a software engineer.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2018
At eleven o’clock on the night of the fifteenth, a government sedan picked up Lawrence for the bumpy three-hour ride to Compania Hill, a watching post twenty miles from the bomb site.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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