Examples of cluster bomb in a Sentence
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In 2001, the US dropped food packets over Afghanistan accompanied by leaflets explaining how civilians could tell the difference between airdrops and cluster bombs.
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Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
Iraq, where there were no new cluster bomb attacks reported last year, saw 15 people killed and 25 wounded.
—Time, 5 Sep. 2023
In the last three years, two people have died in Quang Tri: a man digging a new floor in his kitchen and a boy who picked up and threw a cluster bomb.
—Seth Mydans, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
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
And we're told this is one of many Russian cluster bombs found here in the Kharkiv area.
—CBS News, 9 July 2023
All of this adds to the skepticism of humanitarian groups, who warn that cluster bombs have already killed and will kill more civilians in this conflict.
—Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2023
Western officials say Russia already uses cluster bombs, which Russia denies.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
Providing the cluster bombs will also ease the pressure on limited U.S. ammunition stockpiles.
—Time, 8 July 2023
Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
Iraq, where there were no new cluster bomb attacks reported last year, saw 15 people killed and 25 wounded.
—Time, 5 Sep. 2023
In the last three years, two people have died in Quang Tri: a man digging a new floor in his kitchen and a boy who picked up and threw a cluster bomb.
—Seth Mydans, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
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
And we're told this is one of many Russian cluster bombs found here in the Kharkiv area.
—CBS News, 9 July 2023
All of this adds to the skepticism of humanitarian groups, who warn that cluster bombs have already killed and will kill more civilians in this conflict.
—Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2023
Western officials say Russia already uses cluster bombs, which Russia denies.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
Providing the cluster bombs will also ease the pressure on limited U.S. ammunition stockpiles.
—Time, 8 July 2023
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“Cluster bomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cluster%20bomb. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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