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What is "bomb site"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bomb site
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The library at the end of the road was built on a bomb site.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ruptured gas lines resulted in fires that gutted entire communities of wooden houses, leaving behind smoldering embers resembling a bomb site.
▪ Sophie's room is a bomb site.
▪ The memorial at the bomb site featured mournful bagpipes played Amazing Grace after Marine Capt.
Wiktionary
bomb site

n. 1 An area that an active bomb is contained in, normally sealed off by the authorities. 2 A building or other site destroyed by enemy aerial bombardment.

WordNet
bomb site

n. an area in a town that has been devastated by bombs; "they opened a parking lot on the bomb site"

Usage examples of "bomb site".

He fails to explain why the government quickly demolished the bomb site, destroying all forensic evidence.

She had been to the bomb site, she had seen Riggio's body, she had smelled the heat and the blast in the hot air.

He illuminated the other possible bomb site the targeting specialists had chosen.

His Crime Scene team had spent the better part of the past day and a half picking through the bomb site.

DESPERATE ESCAPE FROM BOMB SITE INSIDE: Sangaman Tayhr: Jekyll &amp.

This bomb site has been pictured and described so much and the boys were so used to seeing it in the distance that the thrill of being in it was limited.