bomb
noun
a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
had bombed
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past perfectof bomb.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denied Thursday that Moscow had bombed the theater, calling it a “lie.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022
Peskov said the United States had bombed defeated Japan in 1945, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Reuters ● Mar. 17, 2022
Imagine if it had bombed, and we had to go through the next year promoting a film that nobody liked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2020
Russia's defence ministry quoted a statement by Syrian army general command as saying that coalition jets had bombed a Syrian army position near Deir al-Zour and that this was allowing IS to advance.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2016
First, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in early December 1941, a little more than four years ago.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
