bomb

During the Cold War, everyone worried about the bomb sometimes.

If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air / Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there

box-office bomb

Nowadays, an old bomb simply won’t pass the inspection.

make a bomb

Our fabulous new crumpets have been selling like a bomb.

It was an ordinary speech, until the president dropped a bomb: he would be retiring for medical reasons.

With five seconds remaining, Smith received the inbounds pass and launched a bomb that dropped through the net to give his team an 80-79 victory.

A bomb for this study is defined as one in which the deepening rate is the geostrophic equivalent of at least 12 mb in 12 h at 45ºN.

The process consisted in preparing the metal by metallothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium metal in a steel bomb.

a Pillar of Iron […] Which if you had ſtrucke […] it would make a great Bombe in the Chamber beneath.

In clear contravention of the International Code of Conduct for Swimming Baths, a teenager had entered the pool by performing a bomb.