: a canister of small individual bombs that is dropped from an aircraft
Examples of cluster bomb in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebThe decision has been divisive within NATO, which includes countries that have prohibited cluster bombs.—Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2023 In 2001, the US dropped food packets over Afghanistan accompanied by leaflets explaining how civilians could tell the difference between airdrops and cluster bombs.—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 See all Example Sentences for cluster bomb
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