Sentence examples for and to explode from inspiring English sources

The nation has gotten lucky twice in recent months when attempts to bring down a plane over Detroit and to explode a bomb in Times Square failed.

Gross negligence may be inferred from the fact that eight different failures — rather than a single act — combined to allow gas to escape up the well and to explode on the rig: e.g. failure to cement the well-head, failure to detect gas in the well, problems with the blow-out preventer, and failure to deal with gas on the rig.

But Newt Gingrich's recent rise in the polls is being sustained, in part, by a right-wing version of exactly the impulse that led Democrats to nominate Kerry: a desperate desire to somehow beat Barack Obama at his own game, and to explode what conservatives consider the great fantasy of the 2008 campaign — the conceit that Obama possessed an unmatched brilliance and an unprecedented eloquence.

"That is what style is, or rather the absence of style--asyntactic, agrammatical: the moment when language is no longer defined by what it says, even less by what makes it a signifying thing, but by what causes it to move, to flow, and to explode--desire" (p. 133 mid-bot).

Quell is home from the war, wild and wonky and set to explode.

One bomb struck the ship's deck and failed to explode, and two detonated in the water near the ship.

The music scene in Athens, GR is extremely busy and dense, and about to explode any minute now.

"A solid torpedo and ready to explode," Spinelli said and stroked it.

All the flora are fully engorged and so, so riiiipe, abundant and ready to explode with their own sweet juices.

He blows hard and makes notes distort and whinny; he made the tarogato sound taut, narrow and ready to explode.

One day Tom broke his club and seemed to explode.