Forerunner to the term sex symbol and originally used to describe popular female sex icons.
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Examples for "bombshell "
1 Mauricio Pochettino dropped the bombshell with his first words on Friday morning.
2 Two-and-a-half hours later, parents and the Department of Education received a bombshell .
3 The lobbyist worked with Mossack following the OECD's bombshell report in 2000.
4 And that was when he dropped his final bombshell : 'I don't know.'
5 That was one thing a bombshell always had on her side, right?
1 She was impossibly magnetic: a puritan sex icon , ascetic and unaware, attractive but untouchable.
1 Changed it from a sex symbol to a powerful female art form.
2 Despite her acting potential, Fox was immediately typecast as a sex symbol .
3 Despite her obvious acting potential, Fox was immediately typecast as a sex symbol .
4 Singer, actor and sex symbol Jane Birkin plays Dublin this week.
5 Let's try to make you look like a teenage sex symbol .
6 You're on the way to being a huge androgynous sex symbol .
7 And, you know, you became like a sex symbol for women over 40.
8 Cue mayhem on set, as the ill-equipped sex symbol lusts for public revenge.
9 Dandridge was Hollywood's first Black female movie star and sex symbol .
10 He was even asked about his new-found fame as the tournament's first ' sex symbol ' .
11 He could be the sex symbol of open water swimming.
12 And thus a star, and a sex symbol , was born.
13 He's Iceland's biggest star -and most unlikely sex symbol .
14 He is a superstar, a sex symbol and women find him super, super cool.
15 This really was rather fun, salving my conscience while driving a sex symbol crazy.
16 His coach thinks he may become the " sex symbol " of open water swimming.
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