carpet bomb
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.04 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A bomb used in a carpet bombing.
Example Sentences
- "The infantry were destroyed after the enemy carpet bombed the ground they were occupying."
- "Russian bombers were carpet bombing the ridge directly above them, in a vain attempt to kill the Mujahideen fighters that plagued their operations on the ground."
- "Vietnamese Air Force continued to carpet bomb any base areas that we found to be lucrative targets at the time."
- "Post World War II (WW II), terrorism against the people acquired a new dimension when America bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and later carpet bombed Vietnam with Napalm."
- "This multiplicity of outlets work like carpet bombs that leave very little empty space for competition to be comfortable."
- "There was a whole new lexicon to learn: cluster bombs, fragmentation bombs, carpet bombs, napalm bombs, phosphorous bombs with their delicate spidery fingers stretching in all directions."