Sentence examples for kamikaze from inspiring English sources

The word 'kamikaze' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to someone who launches a suicidal attack, usually a military one, and is typically used to refer to the Japanese pilots who did so during World War II. Example sentence: During World War II, the Japanese army employed kamikaze pilots in a desperate attempt to gain an advantage over their enemies.

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kamikaze

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To destroy (a ship, etc.) in a suicide attack, especially by crashing an aircraft.

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So bite the bullet before it bites you and go out early with a kamikaze boom.

It's kamikaze stuff: a radical attack that can only go one way.

Since the Lockerbie tragedy, 25 years ago and since the terrorist attacks on New York in September 2001, the face of terrorism has undergone a dramatic change – a plastic surgery of sorts: hijacked aircraft went out of fashion and were replaced by kamikaze zealots wired with plastic explosives, and by shots fired from ambush.

We drive the scenic route through the Brecon Beacons, narrowly avoiding kamikaze sheep straying on to the road.

For their part, the kamikaze pilots helped to convince America that Japan would fight to the last soldier.

Al-Qaeda is remarkable for the expertise and independence of its agents, but they too are trained and primed for their missions.Suicide bombing is a corporate effort: in this respect, the closest historical analogy may be the kamikaze pilots who trained as a cadre to terrorise the American fleet in the Pacific in 1944-45.

Why would you play kamikaze politics with something as important as showing the British people that you are going to try to sort this thing out?

Inside, an inscription honours Japan's kamikaze warriors.

It has submitted documents from kamikaze pilots to UNESCO for inclusion in its "Memory of the World" register of important papers and manuscripts, which includes Magna Carta and the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

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Though there is no suggestion that the Moscow blast was a suicide attack, there has been a series of kamikaze-style bombings in the Caucasus.

Their armour and artillery still look just about capable of fending off the kamikaze-style attacks of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), even after enduring relentless aerial bombing and the loss, according to NATO, of about 100 tanks.Such strategic facts must have been uppermost in the mind of Mr Milosevic, as he began parleying about a settlement with envoys from Russia and the EU in mid-week.

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