Example Sentences

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Asked how his ex-quarterback looked, Rice said, “He was bombing away.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024

Baumgartner was bombing down the snowboard cross course at Genting Snow Park, leading a quarterfinal heat, taking another step toward an Olympic medal that had eluded him for 12 years.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2022

"I saw he couldn’t walk at all," Popyrin said, "but he was bombing 120-mph serves. He was definitely struggling out there. Props to him that he was able to serve it out."

From Fox News • Mar. 28, 2021

“If we thought Russia was bombing Nusra clearly and specifically,” he added, chuckling and throwing up his hands, “we would have moved away from them.”

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2016

The Pentagon, meanwhile, publicly denied that the United States was bombing Cambodia.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin