bomb run
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bomb run
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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“That particular day … the fighters that were to meet us before the bomb run didn’t get there,” Sedgeley said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2021
In order to hit a target in your bomb run, you have to fly a straight course, and you usually try to bomb on the length of the bridge and not crossways.
From Time Magazine Archive
The setting sun bathed the clouds in orange as the pilot, Major John Thigpen, 38, of Windsor, N.C., banked his B-52 into the bomb run.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bomb run completed, U.S. craft lifted quickly out of the Libyan light show and headed north.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yossarian came in carefully on his second bomb run because he was brave then.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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