Sentence examples for bombs in anger from inspiring English sources
The following year, 14 Hornets from No. 75 Squadron deployed to the Middle East to support the invasion of Iraq, escorting high-value Coalition aircraft and later providing close air support to ground troops and air interdiction against Iraqi forces, the first time the RAAF had delivered bombs in anger since the Vietnam War.
Another bonus is that nobody has used a nuclear bomb in anger since Nagasaki.
But the risk that someone, somewhere, might detonate a bomb in anger is arguably greater than at any time since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis brought the cold-war world soberingly close to the brink.Weapons ambitions are spreading, not just to states, but also to terrorist groups.
SAC never dropped a nuclear bomb in anger, though its planes did drop a few by accident.
It is hard to understand now that what came as a relief to Edwards came as an extraordinary shock to the rest of the world, and particularly New Zealand, which had never seen a bomb explode in anger on its territory, let alone an act of terrorism.
Indeed, the first bomb ever dropped in anger was tossed over the side of an Italian airplane onto Libyan tribesmen in an attempt to break their will in 1911.
Be thankful, then, that unlike almost every other weapon invented in the history of warfare, hydrogen bombs have never been used in anger.
England had been invaded, bombed and conquered before a shot had ever been fired in anger and now the war was upon us.
Players shouted in anger.
