Sentence examples for friendly bombs from inspiring English sources

All I can say is: come friendly bombs and fall on our native film industry now.

"To misquote Betjeman: 'Come friendly bombs drop on Slough.' The point is an obvious one".

More famous, of course, are the words: "Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough / It isn't fit for humans now".

They do have the self-awareness to quote Betjeman's "Slough" on "High Street Low Lives", but if these jokers succeed, those friendly bombs came too late.

Kate Mead, freelance journalist and lifelong Bromley resident Places they loved to hate Slough, John Betjeman "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!

The poet laureate Sir John Betjeman famously condemned Slough to more than 70 years of opprobrium when he exhorted "friendly bombs" to fall on the Berkshire town.

Yet Putin and his advisers seem to have considered this mood potentially fragile, the euphoria of a media-friendly bombing campaign that appeared to cost little and risk nothing.

Try also Montgomery, Westcombe, Hafod and St Andrews (all cheddar or cheddar-ish); Dorset Red (similar but smoked, coloured and veggie-friendly); Lancashire Bomb (veggie lancashire); Old Winchester (gouda-style vegetarian); Berkswell (parmesan-style ewe's milk) and Spenwood (pecorino-style, veggie-friendly ewe's milk).

The bombing of the Canadian troops ranks among the deadliest instances of American warplanes accidentally bombing friendly forces in the nine-month war in Afghanistan.

Theories were espoused ranging from the famed musician secretly landing only to die in a hospital from cancer only days later to the plane being accidentally bombed by friendly fire from English planes jettisoning bombs that were originally intended for an aborted mission none of which have been satisfactorily verified.

The soldiers' talk abounded with accounts of near-misses, of grenades tossed out of seemingly friendly crowds, of roadside bombs exploding beside Humvees.