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

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

His collection of on-stage collaborators (i.e., puppets) include a beer-swelling redneck yahoo and a dead, incompetent suicide bomber named Achmed, among others. —Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024

In addition to child-killing, the play came with dismemberment, insanity, fellatio and rapes, with Dea violated by a son who is then blown up by a suicide bomber. —Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024

Tyler Vargas-Andrews, 26, of Virginia, retired from the Marine Corps after losing his right arm and his left leg during a suicide bomber attack in Kabul. —Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2024

Still, nothing has been said officially about what may have happened to the brave Afghani girl who survived a suicide bomber as her family fled the turmoil that engulfed her home country. —Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Dec. 2023

The teenager also considered the possibility he would be immediately be deployed as a suicide bomber upon reaching ISIS militants in the Middle East, the document states. —Dennis Romero, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2023