Sentence examples for a sharp explosion from inspiring English sources

Suddenly, the stillness was broken by a sharp explosion, and a wall nearby erupted in a shower of concrete.

He said, though, that most of his customers seemed to be buying apartments as vacation retreats and as potential refuges in case there was a sharp explosion in violence in France.

Motbey explained that mephedrone releases a sharp explosion of both seratonin and dopamine.

A neighbor who lives around the corner, Francis Cianfrocca, 47, described it as "a short, sharp explosion".

"We were just about to have lunch — the stewardesses had already put the food on our tables — when there was a very sharp explosion sound and the plane lurched to the left and the wind and the decompression came on immediately," Mr. Henshaw said by telephone on Saturday.

At about eleven-thirty, we heard two distinctive short, sharp explosions that seemed to come from a part of the city a couple of miles to the north of us.

Sharp explosions rang out across Gaza, and tank fire and airstrikes lit the darkened sky well into Sunday as Israel continued to pound the area by land, air and sea.

The shockwave produced by volumetric weapons lasts longer than the blast of conventional high explosives; a little like the difference between a bellowing explosion and a sharp bang.

The Cambrian explosion was a sharp and sudden increase in the rate of evolution.

Moreover, the maximum hydrogen explosion pressure has a sharp increase from 0.02 MPa to 0.03 MPa.

Typically, the shock waves from nuclear explosions begin with a sharp spike as earth and rock are compressed violently.