depth charge
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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
I didn’t have time to react, so each pan torpedoed into the blue water and, like a depth charge, held on for a moment before blowing up in my face.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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