volcanic bomb
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It would be reasonable to hear the term “volcanic bomb” and presuppose that such an object tends to explode.
From New York Times
But a specific type of volcanic bomb rarely lives up to the second half of its name: These objects get blasted into the air, crash into the ground and disappointingly fail to detonate.
From New York Times
They can't calculate the trajectory of every volcanic bomb.
From Scientific American
The same force that would throw a volcanic bomb a mile high on the earth could throw it six miles high on the moon.
From Project Gutenberg
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