Wondering how to use Bombsight in a sentence? Below are 7 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as sight.
Bombsight in a sentence
Bombsight meaning
A device which allows bombs to be accurately dropped from moving aircraft so as to hit a desired target.
Synonyms of Bombsight
Using Bombsight
- The main meaning on this page is: A device which allows bombs to be accurately dropped from moving aircraft so as to hit a desired target.
- Useful related words include: sight.
- In the example corpus, bombsight often appears in combinations such as: norden bombsight.
Context around Bombsight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bombsight
- In this selection, "bombsight" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, norden, goerz, showing and development stand out and add context to how "bombsight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include chief of bombsight development called and closeup showing bombsight and clear. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bombsight" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bombsight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Even with its faults, the Norden bombsight was a technological marvel for its day. (14 words)
Even with the vaunted Norden bombsight, the boasted concept of “precision daylight bombing” rarely lived up to its billing. (19 words)
Bowman 2005, p. 20. Design Overview B Mk IV nose closeup showing bombsight and clear nose, plus engine nacelles and undercarriage. (21 words)
Although no other bomber, German or Allied, cradled more than two 112-pound bombs, the Gotha was capable of carrying more than 10 times that amount and dropping them with remarkable accuracy by using a high-tech Goerz bombsight. (39 words)
Conditions in the European theatre made it very difficult to achieve the accuracy that had been possible using the exceptional and top-secret Norden optical bombsight in the clear skies over the desert bombing ranges of Nevada and California. (39 words)
Lieutenant Frederick Entwhistle, the Navy’s chief of bombsight development, called it revolutionary, and its design was good enough that it would be used throughout World War II and up to the Vietnam War. (34 words)
Example sentences (7)
Even with its faults, the Norden bombsight was a technological marvel for its day.
Lieutenant Frederick Entwhistle, the Navy’s chief of bombsight development, called it revolutionary, and its design was good enough that it would be used throughout World War II and up to the Vietnam War.
This event must have rattled Norden, who held Germans as untrustworthy and yet employed numerous craftsmen of German descent in the manufacture of his bombsight.
Although no other bomber, German or Allied, cradled more than two 112-pound bombs, the Gotha was capable of carrying more than 10 times that amount and dropping them with remarkable accuracy by using a high-tech Goerz bombsight.
Even with the vaunted Norden bombsight, the boasted concept of “precision daylight bombing” rarely lived up to its billing.
Bowman 2005, p. 20. Design Overview B Mk IV nose closeup showing bombsight and clear nose, plus engine nacelles and undercarriage.
Conditions in the European theatre made it very difficult to achieve the accuracy that had been possible using the exceptional and top-secret Norden optical bombsight in the clear skies over the desert bombing ranges of Nevada and California.
Common combinations with bombsight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: