Example Sentences

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“They were bombing serves in that third set and got up on us, but we stuck with it and closed it strong. We didn’t want to give them any momentum.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026

It was another driver who asked one of the infantry sergeants what they were bombing.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

Lisa Henson: And to tell you the truth, at 16, I really didn’t realize they were bombing.

From Slate • May 29, 2018

That year, he’d seen yellow megaphones rise above the Washington skyline, which would be used to tell the city when the Russians were bombing.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2017

A man phoned his local police station in the Bronx, a New York City borough, certain the invaders were bombing New Jersey because he saw the smoke from his roof.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow