Sentence examples for like a bombshell from inspiring English sources
NORTH KOREA'S announcement on December 1st that it will attempt for the second time this year to put a rocket into space is likely to have landed like a bombshell on the capitals of South Korea, America, Japan and even China.
Yet the article The New York Times published a few weeks ago — saying that G.E. was likely to pay no federal income tax at all in 2010 — has landed like a bombshell, arousing the kind of populist outrage that hasn't been seen since those derivatives traders at A.I.G. got their last big bonuses.
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".
The one voiceover that seemed like such a bombshell was your admission about having a relationship with WikiLeaks representative Jacob Appelbaum, who has been accused of sexual abuse.
The effect is very much like dropping a bombshell during a court hearing, then telling the members of the jury to disregard what they've just heard.
It's a breakout role for Parris, staring down the camera, swinging her derriere like Foxy Brown, a bombshell in camouflage-print hotpants, whose exercise in education brings the 'hood to its knees.
"American Subversive" is structured as a split memoir, alternating between the points of view of Aidan Cole, a journalism school dropout now blogging about the media for the Gawker-like "Roorback.com," and Paige Roderick, a bombshell turned bomber, part of the inner circle of a radical group modeled on the Weather Underground.
Immediate worries include the risk of electoral fraud or a bombshell like a Mubarak acquittal between the two rounds, or some sudden manoeuvre by the Scaf.
