How to Use explosion in a Sentence

explosion

noun

• The filmmakers staged the car's explosion.
• The island was rocked by a series of volcanic explosions.
• His comments prompted an explosion of laughter from the crowd.
• The region has experienced a population explosion.
• There were six adults in the house at the time of the explosion.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
• At one point an explosion and flames to the side of the road, an IED or mine.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• The explosion was caused by a tank mine buried in the road, the report said.
  — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• At some point, the explosions and gunfire will stop, and the war in the Gaza Strip will end.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2024
• And the explosion of the Maine was the spark necessary to ignite the fires of war.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
• And then from there, of course, the whole Latin explosion happens.
  — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• On the first day of the full-scale war, Mr. Shevchenko heard explosions soon after waking up.
  — Lydia Tomkiw, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
• The explosion was caused by a tank mine buried in the road, the television report said.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• The force of the explosion had flung his wife, Marwa Hamdan, against a wall and a piece of metal hit her in the head.
  — Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
• The fireworks lit up the sky with bright red, green and orange explosions.
  — Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2024
• Ash from a volcanic explosion in 1883 caused the moon to appear blue for years.
  — Doyle Rice, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2024
• Its chief, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, watched an explosion wreck the top two floors of the building.
  — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Since the episode ends just a few seconds after the explosion, we are left with quite the cliffhanger.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 28 Apr. 2023
• But the timestamp on the video appeared not to match up with the time that the explosion took place, and the tweet was later edited to remove the video.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 18 Oct. 2023
• Just as Tala reached the ground floor, an explosion rocked the building.
  — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
• The blast can impact those quite far out of the radius of the explosion because of fallout.
  — Devika Rao, The Week, 25 May 2023
• As for the explosions, Cooper says, the pipeline was in place and driven by the cues on the location plates.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• There was an art explosion in 1980s New York that was so special.
  — Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
• Strikes this week follow the explosion of pagers and walkie-talkies throughout the country last week.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2024
• Megan Schnapp and her partner Joshua Jeffries lived in the home where the explosion occurred.
  — Marina Watts, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• The traffic was stopped after explosions hit the Kerch Bridge, killing at least two people.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 17 July 2023
• According to police, a large number of workers were in the office at the time of the explosion.
  — Asim Khan, CNN, 7 Feb. 2024
• Emmanuel died because shrapnel from the explosion hit him in the head.
  — Patrick Nelson, Fortune, 11 July 2024
• That’s when Walsh — in a remarkable act of self-sacrifice — flung his body on top of the bomb and absorbed the full force of the explosion.
  — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• The same goes for an explosion at a weapons factory in Wales in April, and a spate of arson attacks across Europe.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 8 Dec. 2024
• Atlanta trailed by a point midway through the third quarter before Minnesota’s offensive explosion and Cousins’ turnovers halted any hopes of a Falcons victory on the road.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024