suicide bomber

noun

: a person who commits suicide by exploding a bomb in order to kill other people

a suicide bomber

Examples of suicide bomber in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Khan joined Al Qaeda, agreed to become a suicide bomber and delivered $50,000 that would be used in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia. —Carol Rosenberg Natalie Keyssar, New York Times, 9 May 2024

But one of the last U.S. service members to die in Afghanistan — killed by a suicide bomber at Abbey Gate during the chaotic evacuation in 2021 — was a psyop soldier: Army Staff Sgt. —Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 3 May 2024

Somehow, the music matches the nervous, revolutionary energy on screen: the unlikely sight of an angry Brooklyn patrolled by troops, hundreds of people clashing in the streets, a suicide bomber putting an abrupt punctuation to it all. —Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024

Just last week, an ISIS-K suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt among Taliban militia in the Afghan city of Kandahar, inflicting dozens of casualties, according to local accounts. —Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024

More recently, in 2017 a suicide bomber from Kyrgyzstan killed 15 people as well as himself in an attack on a St. Petersburg subway. —NBC News, 23 Mar. 2024

In 2022, an ISIS-K suicide bomber attacked the Russian embassy in Kabul, killing two employees. —Tim Lister, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024

In the 2021 incident, a suicide bomber set off a blast near a checkpoint where Marines were checking the documents of people being allowed into the Kabul airport to escape the Taliban takeover of the country. —NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024

Related When a suicide bomber attacks the National Guard during a protest, Lee ends up shielding a young woman near the blast. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2024