EXPLODE in a Sentence
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42 example sentences for EXPLODE, such as:
1. The firework exploded in his hand.
2. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.
3. A design flaw caused the engine to explode.
4. They were clearing up when the second bomb exploded.
5. The hot water might scald her when the boiler exploded.
2. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.
3. A design flaw caused the engine to explode.
4. They were clearing up when the second bomb exploded.
5. The hot water might scald her when the boiler exploded.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of EXPLODE
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explode
v. drive from the stage by noisy disapproval
v. show a violent emotional reaction
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 "It's one of them horrid telegraph things, mum," she said, handling it as if she was afraid it would explode and do some damage.
2 Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.
3 Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.
4 When she gets back from Tara she will start again hammer and tongs with the store and those mills which I wish devoutly would explode some night.
5 Mrs. Merriwether rode home in Aunt Pitty's carriage, and scarcely had the four ladies seated themselves when she exploded.
6 Had he exploded with rage and injured vanity or upbraided her, as other men would have done, she could have handled him.
7 Scarlett said nothing for she was still burning with the wrath she had not exploded in the Yankee women's faces.
8 While she watched him, Archie turned suddenly toward the fire and spat a stream of tobacco juice on it with such vehemence that India, Melanie and Pitty leaped as though a bomb had exploded.
9 They had squirmed too long beneath Southern coldness and contempt and now they exploded with hilarity.
10 Dr. Meade fumed into silence and stroked her cheek and then exploded again.
11 She flung her coat at the chair in the hall of the flat, and exploded into the green-plush living-room.
12 She exploded into self-confidence and happiness; her draining thoughts were by marriage turned into energy.
13 The fortress was a smoldering ruin; charred rafters, fragments of exploded artillery, and rent mason-work covering its earthen mounds in confused disorder.
14 When reproached for this afterward, they usually expressed sorrow, and swore by their gods that the guns had exploded without their permission.
15 The shells, which had ceased to trouble the regiment for a time, came swirling again, and exploded in the grass or among the leaves of the trees.
Example Sentence:
1 Three bombs explode outside a police station in the Greek capital Athens.
2 For that to explode, or implode, is going to be devastating, she explained.
3 A design flaw caused the engine to explode.
4 At last, a women's magazine to explode the myth that thin equals beautiful.
5 The firework exploded in his hand.
6 There was a huge bang as if someone had exploded a rocket outside.
7 According to observers, the plane exploded shortly after take-off.
8 They were clearing up when the second bomb exploded.
9 A national newspaper received an anonymous phone call warning about the attack just minutes before the first device exploded.
10 The hot water might scald her when the boiler exploded.
11 Syria said Saturday it shot down a Turkish reconnaissance plane because the plane entered its airspace, insisting it was "not an attack" as both sides desperately tried to de-escalate the episode before it exploded into a regional conflagration.