doodlebug

How To Use doodlebug In A Sentence

• He quotes from the diary: ‘a doodlebug comes over our bus and we all crouch down to avoid the shattering of the window-glass.’
• Born in 1930, Pinter was old enough to see and remember fascist actions in the East End and, of course, to be around when fascism stopped marching and started dropping bombs and launching doodlebugs.
• The device was the notorious doodlebug, or buzz bomb.
• Originally set in a military hospital during the Blitz in 1941, the film relocates the action to a civilian emergency hospital during the doodlebug campaign of 1944.
• ‘One night we held our breath as a doodlebug putt-putted overhead,’ said Sheila.
• In many ways the crowd at a football match is like a World War Two doodlebug - it's when it stops making a noise that those on the ground should panic.
• “Mm,” I grunt, not bothering to ask him to drop the “doodlebug” thing for the millionth time. Slayed
• Under the van Mr King was holding his head in his hands as a one-metre section of the doodlebug embedded itself in the vehicle.
• But the rocket, known to the British as the "buzz bomb" or the "doodlebug," was also easily spotted and comparatively slow, making it vulnerable to antiaircraft fire and enemy fighters. June 13, 1944: V-1 Rocket Ushers in a New Kind of Warfare
• Londoners under attack would come to know it as the doodlebug or buzz bomb, so called for the mechanical hum it made before dropping on its target.