How to Use unexploded in a Sentence

unexploded

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• The maintenance crew found eleven unexploded shells in the plane’s gas tank.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
• There are hundreds of hectares filled with mines and unexploded ordnance.
  — Oleksandr Chubko Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• The rubble was left in place, among the dead and unexploded shells, as monuments to war.
  — Michael Jerome Plunkett september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
• On its second day, an unexploded pipe bomb was discovered on the grounds.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 11 Feb. 2020
• The dud rate refers to the share of munitions that remain unexploded.
  — John Hudson, Isabelle Khurshudyan, Anchorage Daily News, 20 July 2023
• Rescue workers warned there could be unexploded ordnance and bombs in the area.
  — Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2023
• Rescue workers warned there could be unexploded ordnance and bombs in the area.
  — Steven Scheer, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
• At the end of the war, unused and unexploded bombs and chemical weapons had to be disposed of.
  — Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2023
• The weapons are banned by much of the world because unexploded bomblets can pose risks to civilians years after the weapon is fired.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• Dozens of large bins were filled with unexploded pyrotechnics after the tragedy.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2021
• One of the photos shows an unexploded bomblet about the size of a soda bottle on the ground near the front entrance.
  — Michael Biesecker, Erika Kinetz, Beatrice Dupuy, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2022
• Those farmers who have stayed are wary of unexploded missiles and ordnance that lie scattered in their fields.
  — Tim Benton, CNN, 13 July 2022
• And aid groups had warned that the jungles of Kayah were now littered with unexploded ordnance.
  — Yan Naing, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• Guy will not see the Verdun purged of unexploded ordnance in his lifetime.
  — Michael Jerome Plunkett september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
• Some skeptics have argued the mass might turn out to be an unexploded bomb, a tank or another war relic.
  — Nina Adam, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2018
• A day later a second, unexploded bomb was found buried 23 feet into the ground.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
• From the ground around the command post protruded the fins of unexploded ordnance.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• As such, crews will need to safely clear the area of any unexploded ordnances before opening it up to the public.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• Even when combat ends in Ukraine's fields and towns, danger still lurks in the form of mines and unexploded ordnance.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2022
• The site is closed to tourism due to unstable walls and concern about the presence of unexploded ordnance.
  — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
• The weapons, banned by more than 100 countries, can leave unexploded bomblets that can kill or maim civilians.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Hong Kong, in particular, still finds unexploded bombs from time to time.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
• There are some 51 million tons of rubble laced with thousands of unexploded bombs.
  — Shelly Culbertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
• Your boyfriend wasn’t afraid to approach his mom, where the parent to beware is one who must be handled like unexploded ordnance.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• More than 79 years since the end of the war, unexploded bombs from the intense airstrikes are still found across Japan today.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
• An unexploded missile stuck in the ground in a wheat field in Mykolayiv, southern Ukraine, last week.
  — Hardika Singh, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
• At least 60 civilians have been killed, along with the two de-miners, by the unexploded ordnance left behind.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2019
• Before any of that can happen, the Army would need to clean up unexploded ordnance from its tests, which could be costly and take a while.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 3 July 2018
• The plane crashed in the city and ordnance disposal experts removed three unexploded bombs from the wreckage.
  — Brett Forrest and Alan Cullison, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
• The film opens with the discovery of an unexploded bomb on a London construction site.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025