Sentence examples for appeared to explode from inspiring English sources

The physicist ended by quoting the Star Trek character Captain Kirk: "Now beam me up, Scotty," after which his digital image appeared to explode in a beam of light.

Five drivers suffered dangerous tyre failure, when their rubber appeared to explode, starting with Hamilton on lap eight, and followed by Massa (10), Jean-Eric Vergne (15), Sergio Pérez (47) and Esteban Gutiérrez (49).

More creative toys followed: the Ultra Machine, a mechanical ball pitcher; the Love Tester, a machine that measured the "current" between a hand-holding couple and offered a pseudo-scientific readout of their attraction; and a series of Beam Gun games, in which players shot beams of light at targets in an amusement arcade and watched as bottles appeared to explode.

Trails could be seen in the morning sky after the fireball appeared to explode, and some recorded the sound of what may have been the sonic boom that the meteor made as it broke up in earth's atmosphere.

How can a star appear to explode in four different places at four different times?

Often a building is torn apart so quickly and dramatically by these forces that it appears to explode.

By Michael Lemonick March 9, 2015 How can a star appear to explode in four different places at four different times?

Second, with further oxidation, the Ge QD appears to explode into a number of smaller Ge 'dew drops' that appear to migrate away from the Si substrate (Figure 2b).

(Bradley King's lights seem to explode everywhere).

The police said the bomb appeared to have exploded prematurely.

Witnesses told local news media that the helicopter appeared to have exploded after hitting the ground.