Sentence examples for a detonated from inspiring English sources

Footage captured by an Iraqi bomb disposal team shows plumes of thick orange gas emerging from a detonated roadside bomb.

The Fifty Year Sword by Mark Z Danielewski (2012) Less a piece of prose and more a tapestry of words – or a detonated poem perhaps – this takes the traditional fireside ghost story and inverts it.

Originally, however, it referred to the site directly beneath a detonated atomic bomb.

Becky's beehive lurched like a detonated high rise, her lip colour swept westward on to her earlobe, a Regal King Size blazed in her gob".

In another, a man disguised as a woman wearing a burqa detonated a bomb outside the city's main market.

Two weeks later, a bomber detonated a powerful device in Imam Sahib, killing 30 people, most of them civilians.

In January 1998, a bomb detonated outside a Birmingham abortion clinic, killing an off-duty police officer and blinding a nurse.

In that attack, an insurgent detonated a car bomb, killing more than 60 people.

In Diyala Province, north of Baghdad, a bomb detonated in a government office, wounding three people.

A few weeks ago a female terrorist detonated an explosive and killed herself in a safe house.

The next day, a bomber detonated himself aboard a bus in Haifa.