How to Use cluster bomb in a Sentence

cluster bomb

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  • The cluster bombs help Kyiv hold the line, for the time being.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • Last month, cluster bombs left over from the 2006 war killed a man and a boy.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • And we're told this is one of many Russian cluster bombs found here in the Kharkiv area.
    — CBS News, 9 July 2023
  • In July, the U.S. agreed to send thousands of cluster bombs to Ukraine.
    — Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Human rights groups are right to note the danger of cluster bombs to civilians.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 7 July 2023
  • Artem Sokolov was with friends on a playground near their home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, when cluster bombs rained down around them.
    — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • One boy, Artem Sokolov, 11, of Kharkiv, suffered injuries to his left arm and hand in a cluster bomb attack.
    — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • Lebanon still has a long way to go, particularly in the south, where mines and cluster bombs still kill and maim.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • In the first three years of that conflict, it is estimated the U.S.-led coalition dropped more than 1,500 cluster bombs in Afghanistan.
    — Time, 8 July 2023
  • The ban against cluster bombs is a case where the ship of good intentions hits the iceberg of reality.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • The body of a woman lies on the ground at a park after a cluster bomb strike in Kramatorsk, Donbas region, on March 18.
    — Time, 6 July 2023
  • One cluster bomb might contain anywhere from a scant handful to hundreds of bomblets.
    — Rachel Lance, Wired, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Israeli forces dropped cluster bombs, many of which failed to detonate, during the 2006 war with Hezbollah.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
  • One of the worst moments of the war occurred when a Russian cluster bomb hit a train platform in Kramatorsk, killing almost 60.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022
  • The United States is not providing Ukraine with cluster bombs intended to be dropped from planes.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • The people most threatened by more cluster bombs are the same people Ukrainian forces are trying to protect.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 7 July 2023
  • Meanwhile, missile tails and cluster bomb canisters poke out of fields like lawn darts.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2023
  • After he was rescued and taken a few hundred meters back from the front line, he was hit by shrapnel from a cluster bomb.
    — Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
  • With mines and cluster bombs widely scattered, normal harvests seem far in the future.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Some of these weapons — including land mines and cluster bombs — had been rejected by many nations.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Could cluster bombs make a difference on the battlefield?
    — Time, 6 July 2023
  • Some of the worst mass-casualty attacks of the war have been inflicted by Russian cluster bombs.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2023
  • During the 2000s, a movement began to ban cluster bomb-type munitions.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2019
  • Another man, Oleksandr Pashchenko, 42, had collected a half-dozen large pieces of grads and cluster bomb tubes from his crater-scarred fields.
    — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • And last week, Russia dropped a cluster bomb outside a hospital in Vuhledar, Donetsk Oblast.
    — Brian Till, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Kyiv last month began receiving cluster bombs from the U.S., but has pledged to use them only to dislodge groups of enemy soldiers.
    — Susie Blann, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Carrie Bradshaw style, why on earth would someone want to win back Lindsay, a cluster bomb of dashed expectations?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2021
  • More than 100 countries have joined a convention banning the use of cluster bombs — though neither Russia nor Ukraine have joined that convention.
    — Freep.com, 4 June 2023
  • Ultimately, the choice to send cluster munitions, or cluster bombs, to Ukraine could be seen as a kind of resignation.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2023
  • The Biden administration is weighing whether to supply Kyiv with cluster bombs.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 2 July 2023

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