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- noun Plural form of
firebomb . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
firebomb .
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Examples
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The Egyptian state broadcaster, Nile TV, showed police video of the men standing against a wall in front of a table displaying bottles filled with colored liquid - identified as firebombs - along with several identification cards and at least one Indiana driver's license said to belong to one of the men.
NYT > Home Page By J. DAVID GOODMAN 2011
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"Fingers and his liberation army were staging a little ceremony to crown Mysor King of Momus when a local patriot took the opportunity to throw some kind of firebombs all over the place."
Circus World Longyear, Barry 1981
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Throughout the year, self-styled "anarchists" attacked banks, police stations, and other "imperialist-capitalist targets" with tools such as firebombs and Molotov cocktails.
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After they shot pistols and a kind of firebombs (I guess) toward the house where the radio personality lived, they were laguhing together.
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Rioters there lobbed firebombs at security personnel, who charged back with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Egyptians Extend Protests, Shun Ban Matt Bradley 2011
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David Degner for The Wall Street Journal Protesters threw firebombs at police, who responded with rubber bullets and te ar gas.
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You see, most white Americans have reached a point where they can celebrate Dr. King, but that is ONLY because King has been sanitized, stripped of his prophetic zeal, made palatable to whites who 40 years ago may have been among the throngs of fools casting epithets, bricks, and firebombs at Dr. King and his followers.
Jim Keady: Do You Really Want To Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.? Jim Keady 2011
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Anderson Cooper reports that pro-government forces have thrown four or five firebombs at the anti-Mubarak crowds.
Egypt officials say 3 killed, 600 injured in Cairo clashes 2011
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You see, most white Americans have reached a point where they can celebrate Dr. King, but that is ONLY because King has been sanitized, stripped of his prophetic zeal, made palatable to whites who 40 years ago may have been among the throngs of fools casting epithets, bricks, and firebombs at Dr. King and his followers.
Jim Keady: Do You Really Want To Celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.? Jim Keady 2011
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If they need more convincing, a dragon firebombs the highway they are driving on, and Tom says it is hunting them (they head for Stonehenge, using its earth power to shelter them).
REVIEW: World's End (Age of Misrule #1) by Mark Chadbourn 2010
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