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- noun Plural form of
bombsite .
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Examples
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Central to the dispute is a trust fund established in 1955 by Lord Palumbo's father, Rudolph, the son of an Italian emigré from Amalfi, who began a burgeoning property empire with an East End cafe and made a fortune redeveloping second world war bombsites.
Palumbo children accuse father of extravagance as family feud resumes Mark Hollingsworth 2010
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His friend and patron, Osbert Sitwell, caught the essence of his art most pithily in the phrase ‘his sombre yet fiery genius’: all those livid churches, castles, cathedrals, ruins and bombsites against stormy skies.
Fiery genius 2009
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It has been a tatty, poorly-maintained mess for decades and the presence of fresh bombsites on streets already lined with broken curbstones and jerry-built buildings did not make any great difference.
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I accompanied the crew to bombsites where they evacuated the causalities.
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The sequence Paravane originated with discussions on the How2 editorial board post 9/11, but then examines the IRA bombsites in London: it was published in New and selected poems from Salt, 2004.
Frances Presley greenintegerblog 2008
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Casj wasted on muddy fields, bombsites and dodgy deals done but nothing to show for it.
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There were still bombsites left over from World War II, everything shut down at 11 o'clock at night, there was huge unemployment, and no one earned anything whatsoever.
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There were still bombsites left over from World War II, everything shut down at 11 o'clock at night, there was huge unemployment, and no one earned anything whatsoever.
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Perhaps The Bill 1947 , with the coppers of Sun Hill battling crime and black market spivs among the bombsites of post-war, ration-book East London?
ITV daytime drama announced: docs, not cops DAVID BISHOP 2007
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Aluminum plates inscribed with militant slogans purported to be from an al-Qaeda network were found at the bombsites.
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