Results for bombproof

Definitions of bombproof:

Secure against damage, or resisting injury, from the explosive force of shells.

Usage examples for bombproof:

• Saxham thought of the strip of veld between there and the Hospital, even more fraught with peril than the patch he had just traversed, or the distance yet to be covered between the Sisters' bombproof and the Women's Laager, where Death, with the red sickle in his fleshless hand, stalked openly from dawn to nightfall. "The Dop Doctor", Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

• Sitting by a tapestry- frame, for he could not imagine her peeling potatoes, down in the Convent bombproof dreaming of him, weeping over his last letter, or blushfully aware of his vicinity, panting at the bottom of the ladder, listening for the beloved accents of the man who ... "The Dop Doctor", Clotilde Inez Mary Graves