bombproof
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of bombproof
Example Sentences
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“People need to be more aware of the military’s airstrikes and build bombproof shelters.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
The early bombproof plastic phones simply wouldn’t break, and I kept a firm enough grip on modern glass handsets that I rarely worried about it.
From The Verge ● Dec. 24, 2021
So did civilians during air raids—and so, too, did Vichy and Wehrmacht officers, who constructed bombproof bunkers in the maze under the Sixth Arrondissement.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2019
By the 1940s, Roosevelt sped through cities in a limo nicknamed the Sunshine Special outfitted with a siren, a bombproof undercarriage and a bulletproof windshield.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2013
In their bombproof control bunker—protection against the very real possibility that the rocket would explode and land on them—Sergei Korolev and his team sat at consoles watching screens and gauges.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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