bomb site
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It was built on a former bomb site and designed by architects W H Rogers and Sir Howard Robertson.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025
The port resembles a bomb site, and many buildings have been left in a state of collapse.
From Reuters ● Jul. 29, 2021
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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