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01. Police believe that a [bomb] found outside government offices today was meant for the President.
02. Government soldiers have been [bombing] the guerrilla-held area for days now.
03. There have been a number of recent car [bombings] in the area lately, believed to be the work of anti-government terrorists.
04. A young boy blew his hand off with a home-made [bomb] yesterday in Nanaimo.
05. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only cities to have ever been attacked using a nuclear [bomb].
06. The city of London suffered a great deal of damage from [bombing] in World War Two.
07. The children lay in bed terrified, listening to the sounds of gunshots and [bombs] exploding in the distance.
08. John H. Vincent once said that there is more dynamite in an idea than in many [bombs].
09. Every second, a hurricane releases as much energy as the explosion of a Hiroshima-type atomic [bomb].
10. A suicide [bomber] killed himself, and wounded a dozen shoppers in a crowded market in Tel Aviv today.
11. The play totally [bombed], and was shut down after only three nights.
12. In March of 1950, the Soviet Union announced it had built an atomic [bomb].
13. The very first [bomb] dropped on Berlin in the Second World War killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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