Sentence examples for a deafening explosion from inspiring English sources

A deafening explosion ripped into an asphalt road 200 yards from a house alliance soldiers used as a firing position, shaking the ground and sending up a 200-foot mushroom plume of debris.

Eyewitness Mimi Daniels, who works in Abuja, said: "I was waiting to get on a bus when I heard a deafening explosion then smoke," she told Reuters.

Then Mustafa is diving in a ditch and I try to flop in after him as a deafening explosion smacks into the embankment behind us, maybe 100 yards to the left.

"At 4 25am (10 25pm ET) this morning we were woken up by a deafening explosion.

Witnesses described a deafening explosion.

Boris Thiolay, a journalist for the French weekly L'Express who was in the square at the time, described a deafening explosion.

Two sharp blasts shattered the afternoon, then minutes later a warplane streaked overhead, unleashing a third deafening explosion that rolled around the valley and off the surrounding mountains.

Abdellah Ghattas, the head of food services at the Hotel Farah in central Casablanca, formerly the Hotel Safir, said in an interview that he heard the deafening explosion and came running.

After the deafening explosion, flames reached as high as 65 feet in the immediate area of the attack, witnesses said.

Suddenly, the deafening explosion sent pieces of shrapnel and glass flying through the room.

Mr. Xhaferi, who has Parkinson's disease, showed signs of exhaustion at a news conference, as deafening explosions of tank fire drowned out his words.