bombproof
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of bombproof
Example Sentences
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She started breeding her Labrador, Lucy, because she is a “super-resilient, bombproof, go-anywhere, do-anything, loves-everybody kind of dog, who will actually just sleep if you’re not doing anything that day.”
From National Geographic ● Jul. 25, 2023
“People need to be more aware of the military’s airstrikes and build bombproof shelters.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
To save up, Argentines stuff bundles of American bills into old clothes, beneath floor boards and in bombproof safe deposit boxes past nine locked gates and five stories beneath the ground.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
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
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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