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bomb scare
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apparently there had been a bomb scare recently.
▪ Cross-channel ferries held up by a bomb scare ....
▪ Following the find, the centre was evacuated again because of a bomb scare which police believe was a hoax.
▪ No, not the usual boring bomb scare, but a cultural occasion of enormous significance.
▪ She says that they were told that it was a bomb scare.
▪ The previous day also the factory was evacuated after a bomb scare.

Usage examples of "bomb scare".

After the bomb scare earlier in the day, it was perfectly normal for an emergency vehicle to be parked hereperfectly natural, an illusionist would note.

After the bomb scare earlier in the day, it was perfectly normal for an emergency vehicle to be parked here-perfectly natural, an illusionist would note.

He added that the police still had no leads on the gold-toothed stranger responsible for the airport bomb scare.

Setting up a bomb scare was not only cruel and self-serving, it was far from harmless.

They questioned me once or twice about the bomb scare on the flight from London, and asked me to look at photographs - two or three in particular to begin with, and then, when they started to lose interest, whole directories of wrong-doers - but I made a big point of not focusing on them, and tried to yawn whenever they slapped me.

How am I going to explain that I evacuated the motel for a bomb scare?