Sentence examples for burst like a bombshell from inspiring English sources

"Journey," published in 1932, burst like a bombshell on the Parisian literary scene, garnering huge sales and almost winning the Prix Goncourt.

But her announcement burst like a bombshell among Nato officials, the US administration and senior diplomats who complained she had acted unilaterally and failed to inform them through the proper channels.

He exploded on N. Y. U. like a bombshell.

"An agreement should not land like a bombshell," said Musharraf.

But five days later, Higginson received an offer that "fell like a bombshell" into his quarters.

Author Tracy Chevalier will curate an exhibition titled "I Shall Go Off Like a Bombshell: Charlotte Great and Small".

Henein treated each new submission like a bombshell, sometimes ending a day of testimony on a cliffhanger.

The effect of Jacobi's book on the German intellectual stage was like "a bombshell".

A proposal by the Obama administration to reshuffle federal STEM education programs hit the U.S. scientific community like a bombshell.

A state historian stated the news hit Utah "like a bombshell".

"It just hit the public like a bombshell," Myers said.