demolition bomb

noun

1. a bomb containing a relatively large charge, used especially to destroy structures.

Example Sentences

A GPS-guided demolition bomb containing 11,000 tons of explosives, it explodes above ground with a radius of over a mile.

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Moreover, a new 4,300-pound demolition bomb has been invented to aid in the attack.

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Tests made on land with the new 4,300-pound demolition bomb, carried by a Handley Page aeroplane, illustrated the power of the new weapon.

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Captain Courtland, of the Spaceport Police, has expressed the opinion that it could hardly be anything but a small demolition bomb.

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One grenade, and the big demolition bomb, too powerful to be thrown by hand, but which could be set for delayed explosion and dropped over a cliff or left behind to explode among pursuers.

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