Sentence examples for blast set off from inspiring English sources

The blast set off a dirty mushroom cloud that rose more than a hundred feet into the night sky.

The blast set off a panic and hours of rioting as protesters clashed with the police and set fires around the city.

Residents in houses several hundred yards away said they heard gunfire immediately after the blast set off by the suicide bomber.

The blast set off a chain reaction, triggering two American fragmentation grenades inside the Humvee along with an antitank weapon and countless rounds of ammunition.

At about 10 30 p.m., a resounding blast, set off by a suicide bomber, ripped through the Café Moment in the affluent Rehavia district of Jerusalem.

Four members of the paramilitary force were killed, either by gunfire or a blast set off by one of the attackers.

These experiments involved measuring the travel times of seismic waves generated by explosions (such as dynamite blasts) set off over distances of several tens of kilometres.

BAGHDAD — Two thunderous blasts set off by suicide bombers ripped through a crowded shopping street in the town of Balad Ruz in Diyala Province on Thursday, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 62 others, many of them seriously.

But the blasts set off a panic, with ambulances and crowds going to the scene, and they served as a reminder of the problems that many analysts believe could make Pakistan one of the toughest foreign policy challenges for Mr. Biden and President-elect Barack Obama.

The blasts set off a chain reaction of events that ignited the giant jet of oil and gas coming up through the drilling rig floor, incinerating everything that was close.

Hydrogen – or thermonuclear – weapons use a primary fission blast to set off a much bigger blast caused by fusion.