How To Use Exploded In A Sentence

An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester. Times, Sunday Times
Father exploded a bombshell when he forbade us to go to the prom
The bomb exploded and blew them all to kingdom come.
It was not unknown for an unexploded portion of an old charge to remain dormant but active for years under such conditions.

Rubber blanks exploded through the bush I was crouching behind, but none hit me.
The Soviets had exploded their first atomic device in 1949, but they lacked credible delivery systems to threaten the United States directly.
The area is still littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance.
Hearing this, Val fell silent and then suddenly exploded into fits of wild laughter.
As she crossed the fields a shell exploded close to her, fracturing her legs and knocking her to the ground.
Those marines were in a lightly armoured vehicle when it hit the bomb, flipped into the air and exploded in a fireball.
But Ruben liked to pick and pick at her until she exploded so he could turn around and call her childish.
EXPLODE The bomb fell on a field and exploded harmlessly.
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:
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.
The bomb was exploded by remote control.
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.
The bomb exploded in a flash of yellow light.
An unexploded bomb belt was also found close by. Times, Sunday Times
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.
The champagne bottle exploded
The boss exploded when he heard of the resignation of the secretary
The minehunters had been in the area clearing unexploded weapons, including mines, from the approaches to the port.
The myth of the Japanese sniper is exploded by returning officers.
On 12 July 1953, when the Soviet Union exploded its first hydrogen bomb, equilibrium was restored.
But after being successfully kept under wraps for months, their love match exploded on to the front pages this week. The Sun
The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area.
Car ownership has exploded in Edinburgh over the past two decades.
One exploded after a bomb disposal robot accidentally cut the wrong wire. The Sun
An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
There was a huge bang as if someone had exploded a rocket outside.
Now however[Sentencedict], a miniature version of the race riot that Gallagher had predicted exploded on campus.
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.
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
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
All of the light fixtures and electronic devices currently plugged in exploded from the jolt of electric energy that had rocketed from the sky.
The crew survived, but the aircraft exploded when its payload of munitions blew up breaking the windows of many local houses in the blast.
The bomb exploded, sending shrapnel whistling through the trees.
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in a nightclub in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe overnight, wounding at least five people, security sources said on Monday. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
The enemy exploded the bridge
Two of his colleagues had died and a second, unexploded bomb had been spotted. Times, Sunday Times
Investigators found two unexploded devices next to the pipe bomb in a roadside bin. The Sun
Florida's population exploded after World War II.
It was a dribble past the entire team, and the whole stadium exploded. Times, Sunday Times
The bomb exploded while the plane was en route from Paris to Tokyo.
In Basrah, Red Cross instructor was conducting mine and unexploded ordnance awareness activities with schoolchildren.
The park has been closed since early Saturday, when the pipe bomb exploded during a free concert.
The boiler from excessive pressure of steam exploded.
She was entering the lobby when a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft.
An incendiary device exploded in the store, setting fire to furniture.
A bomb exploded at an army recruiting office.
Wide-eyed youngsters watched as dozens of fireworks exploded in a shower of colour to kick-off the celebrations with a bang.
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
When the time was appropriate to give vent to her wish, she just exploded without even a proper training or a formal ‘guru’.
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
Populations of howler monkeys, iguanas, and leaf-cutting ants exploded.
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
An army bomb squad was scrambled to dispose of an unexploded mortar shell found poking out of a rabbit hole on Easter Sunday.
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.
She finally exploded, sending me straight to the principal's office.
Tom Hawthorne was at the Social Security office picking up paperwork for a disabled associate when the bomb exploded.
We all exploded into wild laughter.
THREE people suffered serious burns when a fondue set exploded during a dinner party. The Sun
The handset then exploded, causing serious injuries to the welder.
Workmen digging up a front garden got a fright when they discovered an unexploded Second World War bomb.
Electricity privatisation has exploded the myth of cheap nuclear power.
The bomb exploded harmlessly 20 kilometers above the ground, leaving a train of smoke that remained visible for an hour.
We exploded the nuclear bomb
A bomb exploded at an army recruiting office.
The pounding on the door sounded like a bomb had exploded and Nikolas woke with a start.
In 1949 a Mexican archaeologist began an excavation that exploded the temple theory.
The story ended unhappily for all parties concerned: Harris was disgraced and his reputation exploded, but the forgers were also hounded out of Australia.
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.
The soldier picked up the unexploded bomb and hurled it away into the safety of the forest.
It was making a second attempt to land when a fuel tank is thought to have exploded. The Sun
A bomb had exploded in the road. Times, Sunday Times
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
World War II again exponentially expanded the bureaucracy and D.C. and its neighboring suburbs exploded. Washington is Crisis City again
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
The jet exploded in midair and turned into a fireball.
Michelle dodged and his shot hit and exploded a tree due to its high calibers bullets.
The rocket carrying a telecommunications satellite exploded after blast-off from the southwest of the province.
The bomb exploded and blew them all to kingdom come.
He called out to them to watch out for the unexploded mine.
Sales of e-books have exploded as a result. Times, Sunday Times
The stadium crowd exploded, temporarily breaking the peace in the tranquil city park.
Type 2 diabetes has exploded because of the increasing prevalence of both obesity and sedentary lifestyles.
THE first traffic lights in Victorian London exploded because of a leaking gas valve. Times, Sunday Times
The windows on nearby buildings exploded, people were thrown back, and cars were sent flying into nearby buildings.
A driver died when his tanker plunged 60 ft from a motorway bridge and exploded into a massive fireball.
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
Dated 13 May, it shows unexploded munitions covering large populated areas of Iraq.
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.
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
The bomb exploded in a flash of yellow light.
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.
A rectangular parquet table sat before a wall of windows, and a silk flower arrangement exploded with color on a bombé chest. HEAVEN, TEXAS
A police spokesman said the bomb exploded when the passenger bus was passing through the Noorbagh area of north Srinagar.
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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a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock
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.
The word exploded from my lips before I could stop it. FRONT PAGE FACE-OFF
There was a huge bang as if someone had exploded a rocket outside.
The fuel inside the tanker exploded and the shockwave from the blast boosted Ravena's speed.
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
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.
Nowhere else in Scotland has exploded back into fashion like the Park area of Glasgow.
The second engine upon the other wing exploded in a burst of flames.
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
A rocket exploded with a blinding flash.
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.
Hundreds of birds suddenly exploded from the tree branches high overhead. A KING'S RANSOM
One day in October, a bomb exploded under his truck.
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
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.
In their civilian jobs, they work for a contractor clearing weapons ranges of unexploded munitions.
A bomb or grenade also exploded on the road during the shooting, but caused no casualties.
It was all chaos and smoke after a car or truck bomb exploded directly beneath the window where I had once slept.
Ryu's world exploded into stars as the blow connected with the side of his head, staggering him.
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.
A device was exploded at the main nuclear testing range.
Black water was seen in the ship's wake after the bombs exploded, proof the submarine was doomed.
The survey also exploded the myth that cases of divorce were prevalent among the group.
That looked to be it as the sides laboured under the burning sun, but the encounter exploded in the closing 10 minutes.
At a school in Savannakhet's Atsaphangthong district, UXO Lao staffers lead elementary and middle school children in songs about the dangers of unexploded ordnance and put on a puppet show about a little boy who loses an eye in a bombie explosion. USATODAY.com - 30-year-old bombs still very deadly in Laos
When the first container was loaded on to a truck it was so heavy all four tyres promptly exploded.
There are an estimated 110 million unexploded landmines in war zones in 64 countries around the globe.
An unexploded bomb belt was also found close by. Times, Sunday Times
She watched as the firecrackers rained down from the planes overhead and exploded into fireballs.
In bullets and cannon shells, the amount aerosolised is 40-70 per cent, leaving pieces and unexploded shells in the environment, to provide new sources of radioactive dust and contamination of the groundwater from dissolved depleted uranium metal long after the battles are over, as reported in a 2003 report by the UN Environmental Program on Yugoslavia. International Doctors for D.U. (Depleted Uranium)
The plane dived towards the ground and exploded in a ball of flame.
—The second deadly air show crash in 24 hours has left one pilot dead in West Virginia and prompted the National Transportation Safety Board to dispatch an investigator to the site where an aerobatic demonstration plane plunged into a runway and exploded as spectators looked on. One Killed in West Virginia Air Show Crash
They were clearing up when the second bomb exploded.
Meanwhile, bomb experts were defusing a hand grenade found near a Buddhist temple when a second grenade exploded about 50 metres away, wounding three people.
Within a manner of half seconds, the wall exploded, and out from among the debris leapt a huge creature with slavering tusked jaws and mean yellow eyes.
But Brooks was able to get another one out untorn and into the acid unexploded, where it straightened out, ready to be preserved for decades. Parasite Rex
These peripheral islands form the remnants of a single andesitic volcano ( 'Ancient Krakatau') which exploded and collapsed some 1,500 years ago leaving three remnant cones. Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
If the bomb had exploded in the main shopping area, it would have been devastating.
The device could have been exploded by remote control or timer at any time. The Sun
Groves of old-growth lodge-pole pine and aging spruce fir exploded into flame like toothpicks be-fore a blowtorch.
That was Conner's first thought when the revelers exploded out of sight like a covey of quail.
After the first three blasts, disposal experts tried to defuse a fourth bomb but failed, and it exploded, injuring one officer.
Yesterday's unexploded bomb in London would only have deepened it. Times, Sunday Times
Steam pressure exploded the boiler.
The rearing horse had stood unannealed at maximum heat on the marver table for three minutes forty seconds when it exploded. Shattered
The early models often exploded on ignition. Times, Sunday Times
By the 1990s the population exploded. Times, Sunday Times
Soon afterwards there was a loud report as the fuel tanks exploded.
He exploded into a screaming, kicking rage.
The curator of the Museum of Unexploded Bombs is not, as you might expect him to be, a nervous man. The Museum of Unexploded Bombs « Squares of Wheat
His mother, he said, was apparently proud that he had carried on sleeping when the bomb exploded. Times, Sunday Times
One of the reactors exploded and released huge doses of radiation.
First a house took a direct hit and then the rocket exploded.
It's just so strange: the popularity of cinema exploded in some part due to screwball comedies, which were gender-blind in their joke distribution. Bridesmaids: how a chick flick won over a feminist
It's just like somebody threw a couple of sticks of dynamite in there and it exploded upward and fell down.
Nearly half the residents of the German city of Koblenz are being forced to leave their homes this weekend after the discovery of a 2-ton, unexploded World War II bomb, marking the biggest bomb-related evacuation in Germany's post-war history. German City to Evacuate as 2-Ton Bomb Is Defused
The approaching tanks exploded in rapid succession and burst into flames.
A powerful device exploded outside the station.
The sorry truth for all you druggies is that the myth that taking drugs equates to being a more interesting member of society has been exploded.
To the east is the Mississippi and its long, clawlike delta that seems to point to the site where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank. Gulf coast oil slick headed for Grand Isle, Louisiana
There is irony in this: just as sacramental penance has disappeared, a more generalized confessional culture seems to have exploded.
Country music's popularity has exploded," says Billy Dean.
He had exploded the scholastic system, which had become a mere mass of logomachies and an incubus upon scientific progress. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
Here in Britain, the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal teams are still dealing with unexploded bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe.
The work of clearing and disposing of the mines, shells and unexploded bombs around Kabul Airport never ends.
When this exploded, fortunately not fiercely enough to breach the wall of the vessel, the operators realized what was happening.
And while the blogging world has exploded we're still grappling with what it all means. Times, Sunday Times
The bombs exploded in the air and sailed into the breastworks, throwing up great clouds of dirt.
In April, BP's oilrig exploded and poured more than 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Five Years After Katrina, the Gulf Is Showing All of Us the Way Forward
Just days earlier he was peppered with shrapnel when a roadside bomb exploded. The Sun
The USA exploded 66 atmospheric test weapons on Bikini and Enewetak Islands.
Then Kennaston found the alchemist had been compounding nitrum of Memphis with sulphur, mixing in a little willow charcoal to make the whole more friable, and that the powder had exploded. The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
Early evidence suggests that only detonators exploded, not bombs.
Things at that moment in his life were such that he just exploded and his anger and those feelings were taken out on the wrong person.
Milky-white food slurry exploded in all directions, showering the recovery team with thick white fluid that dried quickly to a chalklike consistency. Lost And Found
He just exploded with enthusiasm that I had never seen before in my life.
[Hackney] played it conservative the first day, exploded the second day with a heavy tailrace bag, held tough on day 3 with a four-fish, 4-03 bag, then brought home the trophy with a day's-best 5-06 limit. Hackney Tops Iaconelli In Forrest Wood Cup
The first salvo exploded a short distance away.
There is a significant ‘dud rate’ of about 5% which leaves many unexploded bomblets littering the ground with the potential to explode years later.
MTV back in the 1980s has exploded into the easy access of Youtube. 1980s amoralism and early 21st century paranoia induce the same political apathy and numbness. Archive 2010-01-01
The US military found an unexploded bomb outside another church nearby.
Authorities, like Rudy Penner, head of the CBO, who said spending exploded in 1998 because of the surplus (which was all SS then) and Moynihan, who knew both SS and government spending first-hand, and said Congress "embezzled" the SS surplus to spend it as free money. Social Security Transition Cost, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Democracy had arrived in our country Spain and the most playful, hedonistic side of the Spanish character had exploded ... you could say that even grief was joyful ... thus the Baroque style, the humor and the colorfulness of the story and its characters. Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Army bomb squad experts rushed to Cranfield on Monday after workmen unearthed an unexploded mortar.
China has successfully exploded the first A-bomb, which aroused great attention and echo.
Moore was hoping for some polite titters, but the audience exploded into laughter.
The airplane exploded and broke up into a couple of pieces.
I looked at the exploded image of my face reflected in the cellophane cover of a book the librarian had got out for me. THE EXECUTION
It is a myth that was exploded when two things happened on the same day last week. Times, Sunday Times
As he bravely continued to move around the perimeter, a mortar shell exploded, wounding him in the face and body.
He scowled and the fear exploded inside as he reached out suddenly and grasped me by the chin again, pulling me so that we were face to face, only inches apart.
It was a dribble past the entire team, and the whole stadium exploded. Times, Sunday Times
The device exploded underneath a van.
When the black shroud was removed from the white jersey, the crowd exploded with cheers in a standing ovation as fans began to chant Robinson's name.
Since then, interest has exploded, with dozens of games challenging thousands of simultaneous players across both real and virtual environments.
Another boat chugged past and at that moment our world exploded in hissing silvery blue, the sea whisking and shining in a turmoil of a bustle of fish and phosphorescence, like coins gleaming in a dark, still pool.
Much was seized for food by a starving population, and much became the casualty of unexploded mines and bombs.
They were clearing up when the second bomb exploded.
But the mass of warm, moist tropical air carried in an old hurricane can hang in the atmosphere like an unexploded bomb. Times, Sunday Times

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