[
UK
/kˌæmɪkˈɑːzi/
]
[ US /ˌkɑməˈkɑzi/ ]
[ US /ˌkɑməˈkɑzi/ ]
NOUN
- a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash
- a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II
How To Use kamikaze In A Sentence
- However, the destruction of so many kamikaze flights did a great deal to undermine the potential for damage that the kamikazes could have inflicted.
- Some few of these ships had catapult-launched Hurricane fighters - the nearest equivalent to the suicidal Japanese kamikaze planes that Britain ever had. San Andreas
- Alongside the land side Japanese defences, the Japanese high command put their faith in the kamikazes which it was believed would inflict such serious casualties on the Americans in Okinawa that they would retreat.
- Kamikaze died of distemper at a young age, and in 1939 Keller received one of his older brothers as a replacement.
- Lee bounds to the crease like jello on springs, Collingwood dabs him down and England take another kamikaze run.
- But the spectre of kamikaze strikes makes any talk of the potentially positive contribution nuclear energy could make to a balanced and renewable energy supply fraught with difficulty.
- Suicidal attacks by undisguised military forces, exemplified by Japanese kamikaze attacks during World War II, are not a violation of the laws of war.
- The Homeland Defence Force had the potential to run into many thousands in the area and the kamikazes had shown the Allies that the Japanese were quite willing to die for the emperor and Japan.
- Iwo Jima helped teach us how to deal with kamikazes.
- The terrorists used civilian aircraft as kamikazes to blast American centers of commerce and destroy global symbols of American power.