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Definition of bomblet in English: bombletnoun ˈbɒmlətˈbɑmlət A small bomb. 小炸弹 Example sentencesExamples - They say one in every five bombs, bomblets, and artillery shells doesn't go off, and lies in wait, sometimes years, for the unwary or unlucky.
- Once again, we are distributing bright yellow food packets into areas where we are also dropping bright yellow cluster bomblets.
- The cluster bomblets are still killing innocent civilians.
- We are calling on the British Government to commit to clearing up unexploded ordnance, including the cluster bomblets that have been left behind.
- The Multiple Launch Rocket Systems weapon, which fires hundreds of bomblets, is likely to be in reserve.
- Others were walking in their fields and accidentally stepped on an unexploded bomblet from a cluster bomb.
- Unexploded cluster bomblets will harm thousands more.
- They spray hundreds of bomblets that have only one purpose; to kill and maim people.
- Each contains 202 bomblets that are scattered by explosion.
- One of the closest calls we had was actually when a Marine stepped on a bomblet from a cluster bomb.
- Cluster bombs contain as many as 200 smaller bomblets and up to 30% of these fail to explode on impact but, like landmines, remain deadly for many years.
- Even if the bombers don't directly target civilians, the unexploded bomblets stay on the ground as land mines, and pose a continuing threat to civilians.
- The buried bomblets claim a new victim every 22 minutes - that's 24,000 casualties a year.
- And these are nasty bombs - made up of several hundred bomblets, which themselves are made up of many pellets.
- And there are just tiny little bomblets in one bomb, and they spread all over the place.
- After they are dropped, they open up in the air and disperse bomblets by parachute.
- Small bomblets containing liquid sarin, a deadly nerve agent, were uncovered as recently as 2000.
- Although different in shape and size, both are yellow in colour and many children pick up the bomblets thinking they contain food.
- The bomblets, which looked like pineapples with spidery fins, had all the characteristics of land mines - except that they were sown from the air.
- There is a significant ‘dud rate’ of about 5% which leaves many unexploded bomblets littering the ground with the potential to explode years later.
Definition of bomblet in US English: bombletnounˈbɑmlətˈbämlət A small bomb. 小炸弹 Example sentencesExamples - They spray hundreds of bomblets that have only one purpose; to kill and maim people.
- The bomblets, which looked like pineapples with spidery fins, had all the characteristics of land mines - except that they were sown from the air.
- And these are nasty bombs - made up of several hundred bomblets, which themselves are made up of many pellets.
- Small bomblets containing liquid sarin, a deadly nerve agent, were uncovered as recently as 2000.
- Unexploded cluster bomblets will harm thousands more.
- Cluster bombs contain as many as 200 smaller bomblets and up to 30% of these fail to explode on impact but, like landmines, remain deadly for many years.
- There is a significant ‘dud rate’ of about 5% which leaves many unexploded bomblets littering the ground with the potential to explode years later.
- One of the closest calls we had was actually when a Marine stepped on a bomblet from a cluster bomb.
- The buried bomblets claim a new victim every 22 minutes - that's 24,000 casualties a year.
- Others were walking in their fields and accidentally stepped on an unexploded bomblet from a cluster bomb.
- The Multiple Launch Rocket Systems weapon, which fires hundreds of bomblets, is likely to be in reserve.
- We are calling on the British Government to commit to clearing up unexploded ordnance, including the cluster bomblets that have been left behind.
- Even if the bombers don't directly target civilians, the unexploded bomblets stay on the ground as land mines, and pose a continuing threat to civilians.
- The cluster bomblets are still killing innocent civilians.
- After they are dropped, they open up in the air and disperse bomblets by parachute.
- Each contains 202 bomblets that are scattered by explosion.
- Although different in shape and size, both are yellow in colour and many children pick up the bomblets thinking they contain food.
- Once again, we are distributing bright yellow food packets into areas where we are also dropping bright yellow cluster bomblets.
- They say one in every five bombs, bomblets, and artillery shells doesn't go off, and lies in wait, sometimes years, for the unwary or unlucky.
- And there are just tiny little bomblets in one bomb, and they spread all over the place.
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