depth charge
Example Sentences
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Navy dropped a depth charge on a Soviet submarine.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
His depth charge explosives were the first to be dropped from a helicopter targeting a submarine since World War II.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022
DeBoer will stress to the candidates to concentrate on their progress and not how they stand on the thus-far hypothetical depth charge.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2022
The water explodes like a depth charge has just gone off, and he emerges covered in suds, somehow having avoided fracturing his tail bone, like a legend.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2021
The giant’s laughter echoed like a detonating depth charge.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
