How to Use detonation in a Sentence

detonation

noun

• The tank was near the detonation cord at the time the shell was launched.
  — Keir Simmons, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2024
• The detonation of an 82mm mortar shell down in the city, or on our hill, or on the next one.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 Dec. 2022
• The noise isn’t the detonation of a bomb dropped by an Israeli jet.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• The detonation was heard as far away as City Heights in San Diego.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
• Putting trash in the trash chute sounded like the detonation of a bomb, according to the suit.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021
• The notch carved out of the island next to the green clump of vegetation is the crater carved out by the detonation.
  — Discover Magazine, 10 June 2015
• That was a pretty good size of pipe that was propelled from the detonation through the fence.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2020
• The thunder from the bomb’s detonation seemed to ricochet and linger in the desert.
  — Nicholas W. Zamiska, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
• And the nest appears to have been half blown open, as if ripped by a detonation that been paused mid-blast.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• And the fatal effects of the bombs didn’t end with their detonation.
  — Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2022
• Police said the detonation did not pose a risk to the public.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 2 Aug. 2023
• The team to solve the puzzle and set off their detonation station fastest, wins.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• Monday’s detonation against the Bucks seemed to come out of nowhere.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 11 May 2021
• The detonation instantly took off both his legs above the knee and one of his arms above the elbow.
  — Thomas Bostick, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• Later that month, dozens of detonations occurred near the plant, the ISW said.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• Much of it is in black and white, treating the detonation of the first atomic bomb as the event that unleashed true evil into the world.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
• Most artillery shells are sent downrange by the detonation of a propellant charge in the breech of the gun.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022
• The detonation point was the open ocean near Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 July 2021
• During the detonation, the 21-person crew still aboard the Dali will shelter in place.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 12 May 2024
• What about the effects on the ground of a nuclear detonation far above?
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 12 Apr. 2022
• There have been no above-ground nuclear detonations in the world since 1980.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2017
• Its temperature stays in the low 200s and there is no sign of detonation.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 16 June 2023
• One of them takes off his leather jacket to reveal a detonation device strapped to his back.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• Visitors can pick the target location, the weapon and type of detonation—air or on the ground.
  — Time, 27 Sep. 2022
• In the outskirts of the city, people anxiously watched the march's progress, while the detonation of gas canisters could be heard from afar.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019
• The effect is reduced by 23 percent if the detonation occurs on the ground.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018
• Just know that somewhere far away, Amanda Waller and her pantsuits are calling the shots behind the scenes, detonation device at the ready just in case.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• The first detonations of fireworks echoed through the neighborhood after a long, tense wait.
  — Constant Méheut, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
• The detonation was so violent the asphalt was pulverized into rocks and sand; a piece of the van was found across the river.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2018
• Footage shared on local media and by residents appeared to show the detonations, with fierce fire and flashes of light on a street lined with houses and cars.
  — Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025