bomb site
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Dame Mary once told the Sunday Telegraph that after World War Two, there were "10 years of gloom and despair, when London was a bomb site".
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023
Andriy Kostin, Ukraine's Prosecutor General who accompanied Khan to the bomb site, praised the cooperation between his offices and those of the ICC.
From Reuters • Feb. 28, 2023
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
“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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