Sentence examples for an explosion threatening from inspiring English sources

The title, Shrapnel, throws up another image – fragments flying through the air after an explosion, threatening injury and destruction.

A large tidal wave, triggered by a distant explosion, threatens to drown the island of Atlantis.

In the mid-1980's, when corporations and politicians warned that a litigation explosion threatened economic growth, the size of defective-product awards actually dropped as often as it climbed.

For each chemical reported, up to two entries for type of release could be selected from six choices (spill, air, fire, explosion, threatened release, other).

It's not a coincidence that as the practice of family dinner has shriveled and shrunk over the last thirty years there has been an explosion of threatening new social stresses and health problems that were all but foreign to our grandparents.

Four days have passed since a series of tyre explosions threatened to turn the British Grand Prix into a farce, but there was no doubt that the driver's safety was at risk with rear tyres exploding at near-200 mph.

The Pacific lionfish has proved so unappealing to sharks and other ocean predators that a population explosion is threatening the delicate ecosystems of a new habitat: the western Atlantic and Caribbean.

He began showing up at the publisher's offices and in an explosion of temper, threatened to attack everyone with an axe.

Moreover, America's teenage population is growing, threatening an explosion of youth crime.

His house was full of butane gas to light his sempiternal pipe, threatening an explosion.

Capital outflows threatened their pegs, and abandoning the pegs threatened an explosion in the size of the debt burden in domestic currency terms.