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bombshell
noun as in blow
noun as in bomb
noun as in eye opener
noun as in hoo-ha
noun as in jolt
noun as in sensation
noun as in shock
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in surprise
Strongest matches
Strong matches
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Example Sentences
The whole of Kerguelen seemed to burst like a bomb-shell with a blaze of light shewing islands and sea.
Husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell.
Meanwhile, the physician attending Mr. Langton has thrown a bomb-shell into that camp.
This bomb-shell was not, however, thrown into Mr. Benson's magazine without an immense amount of smoke and noise.
Stanton looked baffled, as his bomb shell exploded without apparent effect.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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