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Example sentences for "bombardier"

Lexicographically close words:
bomas; bomb; bombard; bombarde; bombarded; bombardiers; bombarding; bombardment; bombardments; bombardon
  1. The batteries were well on the way to their destination; and we three, jogging along in rear, had encountered Bombardier M'Donald, triumphant at having filled his forage and rations waggon for yet another day.

  2. The bombardier was somewhat surprised last night when the gunner handed him his lost cake.

  3. The amusing thing is that when he had killed the Boche he searched his pockets, and found a cake, addressed to a bombardier in another battery.

  4. A knock at the door, and the entrance of a quick-eyed dapper bombardier from the very battery talked of prevented Dumble continuing.

  5. Mr Dawes, who took command, said we would keep on with rifles, and Bombardier Clidstone was doing fine work with his Lewis gun.

  6. They were crouching in one of the gun-pits--a bombardier and three gunners, very cold and very miserable.

  7. So three unfortunate gunners and a bombardier were told off to mount guard over it, given some tins of bully beef and a few biscuits and marooned, as it were, till the morning.

  8. At these directions the bombardier and the orderly exchanged glances and snickered.

  9. On the bombardier depends the effect of the bombardment!

  10. At a little village south of Troyon, on 15th September, Bombardier Harlook's battery was under heavy shell fire.

  11. It was during this part of the fighting that Bombardier Ernest Harlook, of the 113th Battery, R.

  12. The odd little creatures known as Bombardier Beetles are still quainter in their habits: they carry the last-mentioned mode of defence to an even greater pitch of perfection.

  13. Bomber pilots had a navigator to tell them where to go and a bombardier to drop the bombs.

  14. At the center we had three days of intensive tests of all kinds to find out what we were best qualified for: navigator, bombardier or pilot.

  15. I didn't realize until later that it was a good thing I skipped the math as the men who were good at it probably got sent to bombardier or navigator training.

  16. In most cases you would be sent to navigator or bombardier school.

  17. Grylls, both of the 66th battery, accompanied by Bombardier Knight and two gunners, thereupon made a valiant endeavour to assist the endangered drivers.

  18. Schreiber was shot dead, and Grylls severely wounded, but the bombardier and gunners succeeded in bringing back two wounded men.

  19. This insect is preyed upon by larger beetles of its own family; but when chased, the bombardier ejects an acid fluid from glands situated at the tip of its tail.

  20. As the bombardier levels his mischief at nations and cities, the miner busies himself in ruining and overturning private houses and particular persons.

  21. The bombardier tosses his balls sometimes into the midst of a city, with a design to fill all around him with terror and combustion.

  22. Down in the Infantry, nobody cares; Down in the Cavalry, Colonel 'e swears; But down in the lead with the wheel at the flog Turns the bold Bombardier to a little whipped dog!

  23. The relay posts are constantly shelled, and the bombardier in charge is wounded, while one runner was killed in his gallant endeavour to pass through a heavy barrage with an important communication.

  24. In the small work, called The Bombardier and Pocket Gunner, there are three formulæ given for slow-match: The first consists in soaking light twisted rope in strong ley for three days.

  25. This sort of powder, says Adye, (Bombardier and Pocket Gunner,) is marked with a blue L.

  26. In the composition of Bengal lights, given in the Bombardier or Pocket Gunner, by R.

  27. A few days after Chick’s departure for bombardier school, graduation separated the two remaining roommates.

  28. For the rest of the trip Rosy O’Grady’s pilots and bombardier kept their eyes peeled for suspicious looking “market gardens,” but none appeared.

  29. The little bombardier shook his numbed fingers, grabbed the right-hand machine gun and swung it broadside.

  30. The pilots and the bombardier scanned air and sea ahead.

  31. I was the bombardier who bailed out with him from the B-26.

  32. One of these men, Bombardier Wilson by name, who belonged to Battery D 238, seemed to take a liking to me, and I returned this feeling.

  33. If the foe is not vanquished (as it commonly is), but still continues the attack, the bombardier turns and fires another broadside from the opposite side.

  34. Calosoma sycophanta pursuing a Bombardier (Brachinus explodens), which squirts out a vapour of pungent odour.

  35. The pepper is good stuff; I put some in my tea--it warms you up a treat: Bombardier Yorke, R.

  36. My worst wound is on the right arm, a piece of flesh torn away, but with good dressing it should heal up well: Bombardier A.

  37. Officers were rare visitors in Bombardier Lane and McKay's staff-uniform inspired respect.

  38. The letter she had picked up in Bombardier Lane said so.

  39. There was no time to hang about the tobacconist's shop in Bombardier Lane, waiting furtively for a chance of seeing Mariquita alone.

  40. He had made himself one moment of leisure, and visited Bombardier Lane, but without result.

  41. Of course he went to Bombardier Lane, where he was received by the old people like a favourite son.

  42. All cowered before him except La Zandunga, as they called his wife here in Bombardier Lane.

  43. But read this if you doubt me," and the boy, who was no other than Mariquita in disguise, produced the scrap of paper she had picked up in the shop in Bombardier Lane.

  44. The bombardier mentions that the Indians in their alarm and anger immediately burnt all the male prisoners in their villages.

  45. The bombardier did not prove a very valorous personage, and on the alarm of Clark's advance, soon afterwards, he permitted the Indians to steal his horses, and was forced to bury his ordnance in the woods.

  46. But McKee says only six Indians were killed and three wounded; and Bombardier Homan, in the letter already quoted, says six were killed and two captured, who were afterwards slain.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bombardier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    artilleryman; bombardier; bomber; crew; gun; gunner; meteorologist; navigator; steward; stewardess