How To Use Explode In A Sentence
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Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea.
Edison, His Life and Inventions
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An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
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To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
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When flammable powders are dispersed in the air, they can explode.
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The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester.
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Strange emotions welled up inside her until she felt like she was going to explode from the pressure
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Due to the very long stroke and alloy conrods, the motor is redlined at 7,000 and will definitely explode if persistently over-revved.
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Father exploded a bombshell when he forbade us to go to the prom
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The bomb exploded and blew them all to kingdom come.
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On impact the shells explode in a fire ball, producing a fine dust.
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It was not unknown for an unexploded portion of an old charge to remain dormant but active for years under such conditions.
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At last, a women's magazine to explode the myth that thin equals beautiful.
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Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me.
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The Soviets had exploded their first atomic device in 1949, but they lacked credible delivery systems to threaten the United States directly.
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The area is still littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance.
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Hearing this, Val fell silent and then suddenly exploded into fits of wild laughter.
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As she crossed the fields a shell exploded close to her, fracturing her legs and knocking her to the ground.
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Those marines were in a lightly armoured vehicle when it hit the bomb, flipped into the air and exploded in a fireball.
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By the same laws of probability, the chances that a random bus will spontaneously explode for no reason are slim to none.
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Their sordid complots are destined to explode into an orgy of violence.
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But Ruben liked to pick and pick at her until she exploded so he could turn around and call her childish.
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EXPLODE The bomb fell on a field and exploded harmlessly.
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This has given him an insight into the animals' social organisation and he has been able to explode myths about them.
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A bomb exploded at the American Center in Katmandu last week which lead to the consolidation of all volunteers, evacuation and now suspension of the program altogether.
Wanderlustress:
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Walleye fry were stocked. In less than ten years the fish population exploded from 200, 000 to eight million, and tribal members were allowed to resume commercial fishing.
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Now the microwave oven was pretty old and I'm not surprised it conked out, but the iron was relatively new and I hadn't been expecting it to explode in my hand for another couple of years at the earliest.
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Many boys explode firecrackers on the Fourth of July.
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Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking vehicle in Times Square, authorities said Sunday.
Bomb found in car near Times Square
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The sudden compression of air as the rammer thrust with the fleece could explode the residues of unburnt powder that was caked to the breech walls, so a gunner, wearing a leather thumbstall, pressed his thumb over the vent to stop the airflow.
Sharpe's Waterloo
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The bomb was exploded by remote control.
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One of the reasons given for the dumping of the turbosupercharger concept was the fact that a turbo had exploded on the YFM - 1's first test flight on 28 September 1939.
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The bomb exploded in a flash of yellow light.
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An unexploded bomb belt was also found close by.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first time he had drunk it he had been violently sick, then had fallen to the ground in a dead faint as the mildly poisonous root exploded through his system.
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The champagne bottle exploded
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The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary
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The minehunters had been in the area clearing unexploded weapons, including mines, from the approaches to the port.
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The myth of the Japanese sniper is exploded by returning officers.
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On 12 July 1953, when the Soviet Union exploded its first hydrogen bomb, equilibrium was restored.
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She laughed that remarkable laughter that sounds so very much like chimes, the laughter of feminine innocence, pure joy, a laugh that begins in the diaphragm, explodes through a grin and electrifies the eyes.
Stop the runaway horses
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But after being successfully kept under wraps for months, their love match exploded on to the front pages this week.
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The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area.
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Car ownership has exploded in Edinburgh over the past two decades.
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Oil is notoriously difficult to explode or burn, as it keeps putting itself out, but these were quarrymen, versatile, and well used to explosives, danger and hard physical labour.
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One exploded after a bomb disposal robot accidentally cut the wrong wire.
The Sun
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An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
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There was a huge bang as if someone had exploded a rocket outside.
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Now however[Sentencedict], a miniature version of the race riot that Gallagher had predicted exploded on campus.
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They are moving incredibly quickly through dried brush and chaparral that practically explode when they ignite, threatening the life of any firefighter nearby.
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The captain and his crew were left drifting aimlessly on the tiny raft after their boat, the Gullborg, exploded south of Shetland almost 32 years ago.
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VATICAN, April 26, 2006 LifeSiteNews.com - The world media has exploded with stories suggesting that the Vatican is soon to release a document "easing the ban on condoms".
Vatican Cardinal on Condoms:No Document, Just a Study
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An unexploded bomb is lodged ominously in the courtyard, a neat visual allegory for the sense of imminent threat in the film.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of the light fixtures and electronic devices currently plugged in exploded from the jolt of electric energy that had rocketed from the sky.
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The round, muted bluesy guitar is solid and unassuming until it explodes into a dizzying solo.
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The crew survived, but the aircraft exploded when its payload of munitions blew up breaking the windows of many local houses in the blast.
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Victims were vomiting, writhing in agony and screaming that they felt their heads were about to explode.
The Sun
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Most of these fireballs burn up or explode in the atmosphere and vanish without a trace.
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But when Dev arrives at his shop it explodes in a fireball, which sends him flying across the road, leaving him battered and bruised.
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The bomb exploded, sending shrapnel whistling through the trees.
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DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a nightclub in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe overnight, wounding at least five people, security sources said on Monday.
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The enemy exploded the bridge
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The chemical is liable to explode on contact with water.
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Spring is also the time when wild flowers start to explode across the countryside, even in semi-desert areas.
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Two of his colleagues had died and a second, unexploded bomb had been spotted.
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Investigators found two unexploded devices next to the pipe bomb in a roadside bin.
The Sun
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Florida's population exploded after World War II.
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This book finally explodes some of the myths about the origin of the universe.
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It was a dribble past the entire team, and the whole stadium exploded.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the paper, the dependability of explode energy of blasting fuse through space attenuation ignite the high energy ignition compositions was learned.
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And, as if the moment couldn't turn any more unfortunate, one of these shadow spikes struck the car's fuel tank, rupturing it and causing the yellow cab to explode into shrapnel and into flames.
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Worse, I expect the designer Mini-Me craze to explode once cloning enters the market.
Baby Boom
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The bomb exploded while the plane was en route from Paris to Tokyo.
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In Basrah, Red Cross instructor was conducting mine and unexploded ordnance awareness activities with schoolchildren.
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The park has been closed since early Saturday, when the pipe bomb exploded during a free concert.
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The boiler from excessive pressure of steam exploded.
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She was entering the lobby when a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft.
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The infectious glam stomp of the closer Retreat explodes in delirious joy, a fitting high note on which to end.
Times, Sunday Times
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An incendiary device exploded in the store, setting fire to furniture.
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A bomb exploded at an army recruiting office.
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Wide-eyed youngsters watched as dozens of fireworks exploded in a shower of colour to kick-off the celebrations with a bang.
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For a second, I thought he was going to explode with anger.
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Darling, I've got to see Jon before I explode with the force of an H-bomb and devastate the diocese.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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A 25-year-old Catholic policeman who had just joined Northern Ireland's police force was killed after a booby-trap bomb exploded as he got into his car in the town of Omagh, police and neighbors said.
World Watch
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When the time was appropriate to give vent to her wish, she just exploded without even a proper training or a formal ‘guru’.
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Carruth's anguish is part of a common but little talked about consequence of the summer of oil: People overcome by stress and worry, who are having a hard time navigating a world that seems so different from the one they knew before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, sending waves of crude and tar balls toward the coast.
Gulf Oil Spill Well Is Dead, But Not Residents' Anguish
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The police explode a bombshell when they arrested the old banker for stealing money from the bank.
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She touched him as though he was a bomb unfused, and likely to explode.
Final Resting Place of The Pen
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The pellets simultaneously explode to initiate the entire outer surface of a high explosive component in hemispherical form under the shell.
Iran nuclear report: IAEA claims Tehran working on advanced warhead
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Populations of howler monkeys, iguanas, and leaf-cutting ants exploded.
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I hate boys," she exploded, "they're the worry of our lives, Car'line and mine, -- they get into our garden, and steal all our fruit, and they hang on behind our chaise when we ride out, and keep me a-lookin 'round an' slashin 'the whip at 'em the whole livelong time; O my -- _boys! _
Five Little Peppers Abroad
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An army bomb squad was scrambled to dispose of an unexploded mortar shell found poking out of a rabbit hole on Easter Sunday.
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From time to time aftershocks of the earthquake shook the ground, and could even be felt on board ship, seeming to those on board that depth charges were being exploded in the sea.
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Those that do not explode lie on the ground like landmines, waiting for people to step on them.
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All follow a similar pattern, juxtaposing ‘free’ sections - in rhythms derived from operatic recitative that recurrently explode into whirligig scales and arpeggios - with fugato sections of varying degrees of formal rigidity.
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She finally exploded, sending me straight to the principal's office.
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Tom Hawthorne was at the Social Security office picking up paperwork for a disabled associate when the bomb exploded.
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We all exploded into wild laughter.
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THREE people suffered serious burns when a fondue set exploded during a dinner party.
The Sun
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The handset then exploded, causing serious injuries to the welder.
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And if I can help explode stereotypes and misinformed beliefs, so much the better.
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Workmen digging up a front garden got a fright when they discovered an unexploded Second World War bomb.
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Electricity privatisation has exploded the myth of cheap nuclear power.
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The car was juddering and vibrating as if it would explode.
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The bomb exploded harmlessly 20 kilometers above the ground, leaving a train of smoke that remained visible for an hour.
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We exploded the nuclear bomb
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Then, a couple of years ago, free, automated publishing systems began appearing on the Web, which caused blogging to explode in popularity.
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A bomb exploded at an army recruiting office.
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What makes him do that is his belief that the man is about to explode a bomb.
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The pounding on the door sounded like a bomb had exploded and Nikolas woke with a start.
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In 1949 a Mexican archaeologist began an excavation that exploded the temple theory.
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The story ended unhappily for all parties concerned: Harris was disgraced and his reputation exploded, but the forgers were also hounded out of Australia.
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In 1908, an asteroid or comet about 60 metres long exploded over Siberia with the force of 600 times the Hiroshima bomb, reducing a 40-km wide patch of forest to matchwood.
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It would, he thought with a smile, be most unfitting to explode on landing under the circumstances.
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For instance, Mai has found that freshly made copper acetylide can be heated to 60° C. or higher without explosion; but that if the compound is exposed to air for a few hours it explodes on warming, while if warmed with oxygen it explodes on contact with acetylene.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
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The soldier picked up the unexploded bomb and hurled it away into the safety of the forest.
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I'm fairly certain that the Motorola product doesn't pressurize the methanol and thus with no pressure, there's nothing to explode at all.
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In the meantime, the study may just give the rest of us permission to just let go and explode with our favorite curse word when we bump our shins on the coffee table.
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Equally important, a peace settlement with Washington is needed to defuse the military standoff at the 38th parallel, where a conflict could explode at any time, bringing detente to a halt.
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It was making a second attempt to land when a fuel tank is thought to have exploded.
The Sun
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A bomb had exploded in the road.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes anxiety explodes in a panic attack, marked by a general feeling of terror.
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Aviation Week," which is a weekly journal here in the United States reporting today that air force tracking, ground-based air force tracking cameras, at about 60 seconds before the plane exploded -- in other words when it was still largely intact in the skies over Arizona and going into Texas, that these cameras showed serious structural damage to the inboard, what's called the inboard leading edge of the left wing.
CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2003
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World War II again exponentially expanded the bureaucracy and D.C. and its neighboring suburbs exploded.
Washington is Crisis City again
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Blood mingled with broken glass on the ground where a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in Sadr City.
Explosions Across Baghdad
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The jet exploded in midair and turned into a fireball.
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Michelle dodged and his shot hit and exploded a tree due to its high calibers bullets.
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Darling, I've got to see Jon before I explode with the force of an H-bomb and devastate the diocese.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Villas-Boas looked ready to explode as he sensed another squandered opportunity.
The Sun
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The rocket carrying a telecommunications satellite exploded after blast-off from the southwest of the province.
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When two writers are involved who happen to be great contemporary poets, artistic equals, the material that explodes out of the depths is bound to be incandescent, exhilarating, unearthly and passionate.
Ted Hughes's final lines to Sylvia Plath bring closure to a tragic tale
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And in this line, as they reciprocally meet, they appear to explode and give out light and heat, and a new combination of the two ethers is produced, as
Note XII
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The bomb exploded and blew them all to kingdom come.
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He called out to them to watch out for the unexploded mine.
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Sales of e-books have exploded as a result.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stadium crowd exploded, temporarily breaking the peace in the tranquil city park.
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However, it is thought that that can cause imperfections in the glass which sometimes cause it to explode without warning.
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Type 2 diabetes has exploded because of the increasing prevalence of both obesity and sedentary lifestyles.
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I find it overpoweringly beautiful — really. I love it, but it makes my head explode to the extent that I can scarcely read it.
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Freund and Mai have also observed that when copper acetylide which has been dried in contact with air for four or five hours at a temperature of 50° or 60° C. is allowed to explode in the presence of a current of acetylene, an explosion accompanied by light takes place; but it is always local and is not communicated to the gas, whether the latter is crude or pure.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
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Energy explodes from torsos, courses through limbs, and shoots out fingers splayed, reflexively, like a child's.
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The snag is that money-supply growth would explode without sterilisation, which is now close to its limit.
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THE first traffic lights in Victorian London exploded because of a leaking gas valve.
Times, Sunday Times
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They kick footballs, pilot spacecraft across millions of light years and explode the sharp-teethed jaws of flesh-eating aliens who would destroy Earth and every living thing on it.
Matthew Edlund, M.D.: Why Your Kids Should Play Outside
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Sooner or later, we explode with it — in the form of anger toward our spouse, who comes dilly-dallying in after a day of adult interaction, interaction with people WHO WILL LISTEN.
The Other Side Of Anger | Her Bad Mother
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The windows on nearby buildings exploded, people were thrown back, and cars were sent flying into nearby buildings.
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A driver died when his tanker plunged 60 ft from a motorway bridge and exploded into a massive fireball.
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The journey starts at her local Brooklyn sanitation division, then explodes into the world-wide business of waste disposal, which seems 1) very profitable and 2) largely an exercise in staving off the inevitable.
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The mosquito-borne illness is spreading and the cases could explode in the judgment of those health officials.
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But, I thought you couldn’t call it ‘receivership’ either, because those all trillions and trillions of imaginary dollars in notional value Credit Default Swaps have to pay out for banks that go into ‘recievership’ and to have those unexploded CDS liabilities go from imaginary to real would be the world financial system equivalent of Global Thermonuclear War.
Matthew Yglesias » Eisinger and Salmon on Bank Nationalization
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Dated 13 May, it shows unexploded munitions covering large populated areas of Iraq.
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Well if it do not, Pilatre-like, explode; and demount all the more tragically!
The French Revolution
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The population explodes to 40,000 during the tourist season.
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He knows when to explode into the shot - when the defender is off balance or has stiffened his knees or has moved in too close.
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The detonation of an unexploded bomb discovered along with the German skeletons sends its fragments across the town, causing damage that is more symbolic than physical.
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As a rhythmist, my story starts with the beginning of time and space, which was the big bang, when the blank page of the universe exploded and created the stars, the planets, the sun, the moon, earth, and us.
Mike Ragogna: From The Grateful Dead to Rhythm Devils : A Conversation with Mickey Hart
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The programme sets out to explode the myth that some delicate tropical fish are impossible to keep.
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The bomb exploded in a flash of yellow light.
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She telephones the carabinieri to tell them the bomb is about to explode, and goes quietly when they come to arrest her.
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And so we poured gas down every cavernous hole we found, and then exploded them with torches, setting the caves on fire like raw infernos.
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They're calm and rational at times, but they may explode into inappropriate anger or rage at some perceived rejection or criticism.
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A rectangular parquet table sat before a wall of windows, and a silk flower arrangement exploded with color on a bombé chest.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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A police spokesman said the bomb exploded when the passenger bus was passing through the Noorbagh area of north Srinagar.
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As a bloated corpse swells and its distended belly explodes, sending guts flying and Booth retching, Bones does a happy dance: You rarely get to actually see a body rupture from distension.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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World is all decayed down into due attritus of this sort; and shall now be exploded, and new-made!
The French Revolution
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And the challenges arrived: Stories with titles like “She Killed Me Twice”, “The Brain That Exploded”, “The Pachyderm Wore Pink” and “Single White Fee Male” with words like ranunculus, vaginate and carronade. 300 stories later, here for the first time in print are 180 of the best.
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a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock
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The hail of energy pulses was too much for the copter's armoured hull to take, as it exploded and debris rained down onto the street far below.
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The word exploded from my lips before I could stop it.
FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF
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It could have been the chunks of ice that would dislodge from the nose of the plane and come careening back toward the propellers and explode when they hit the blades, or it could have been the Nor'Easter that no one bothered to tell the pilot was pounding the eastern seaboard.
Intercession
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Since the beginning of the plant occupation, workers have threatened to use the 46 tons of carbonic sulfur stocked in the plant to explode the facility.
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A blast bomb was thrown but the device failed to explode.
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There was a huge bang as if someone had exploded a rocket outside.
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The fuel inside the tanker exploded and the shockwave from the blast boosted Ravena's speed.
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In this case, cupfuls of frontal lobe, corpus callosum and snowflake-unique collections of synapses that led Miss Mullens to curse out loud with words like “poot” and “jiminy” and yet have internal dialogue like a motherfucking stevedore, as I was to find out to my displeasure when her consciousness exploded into mine as I was lying in the attic, replete, about four hours later.
Blood Lite II: Overbite
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It's a bit like a car, gathering speed, and just winging out of control, starting to slalom on the ice until it explodes.
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Police quoted witnesses as saying the bomb, placed in a standing rickshaw and targeting a police van, was exploded by remote control, damaging both the van and the three-wheeler.
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Nowhere else in Scotland has exploded back into fashion like the Park area of Glasgow.
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Overwatch projectile shouldn't explode below ground any more.
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The second engine upon the other wing exploded in a burst of flames.
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And, as their pressure increased, Laura felt a brilliant light seeming to explode in both her mind and body.
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As the charge exploded I saw the aasvogel give a kind of backward twist.
Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain
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They steal aviation fuel for their lamps, and sometimes the lamps explode.
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A rocket exploded with a blinding flash.
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When we were told by the police that an unexploded bomb had been found, they said there was no real panic but advised us to keep the children away from the houses.
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Hundreds of birds suddenly exploded from the tree branches high overhead.
A KING'S RANSOM
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One day in October, a bomb exploded under his truck.
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If she eats gluten, she swells up and explodes into a thousand bits of flesh.
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The pilot was landing, and it seemed he sort of turned to one side and the plane exploded when it hit the cars.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bomb must explode within less than a millionth of a second.
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The mushroom cloud exploded over Aspen and lingered for the following 24 hours or so, as we all just scratched our heads and nodded knowingly to each other.
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In their civilian jobs, they work for a contractor clearing weapons ranges of unexploded munitions.
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He timed the bomb to explode four hours after he left the aircraft.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the wiring were overheating, it could have caused oxygen-generating canisters in the cargo hold to explode, he said.
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Additional, do not eat the food with the high volume that contain lead more to darling, like preserved egg, popcorn, explode soya bean, explode horsebean , explode New Year cake piece etc.
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We can first explode the myth that judges are to blame and ministers are not responsible for sentence lengths.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bomb or grenade also exploded on the road during the shooting, but caused no casualties.
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It was all chaos and smoke after a car or truck bomb exploded directly beneath the window where I had once slept.
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Ryu's world exploded into stars as the blow connected with the side of his head, staggering him.
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Even if the bombers don't directly target civilians, the unexploded bomblets stay on the ground as land mines, and pose a continuing threat to civilians.
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Villas-Boas looked ready to explode as he sensed another squandered opportunity.
The Sun
