Sentence examples for boiler burst from inspiring English sources
The boiler burst into action.
What is depressing are not just the lame excuses - whatever happened to, "The boiler burst, I narrowly escaped horrific burns"?
THE tiny soldiers that are the stars of Burlington Toys, a subterranean store at 1082 Madison Avenue, survived intact, but the Pee-wee Herman doll was put in harm's way recently when a boiler burst and hot water cascaded inside.
During the 1937 flood, the library was used as a makeshift hospital until the water boiler burst.
The investigation, led by Colonel Druitt of the Railway Inspectorate, dismissed the theory that the enginemen had succeeded in starting the injectors and that the sudden flood of cold water had caused such a generation of steam that the boiler burst.
A tube in one of her boilers burst on 10 June during a 24-hour engine trial, killing six and wounding three.
While conducting preliminary steam trials on 12 July 1900, tubes in two of her boilers burst, killing one crewman and wounding two others.
The inside became full of smoke as escaping oil fuel in the forward boiler room burst into flames.
After leaving Cherbourg a boiler tube burst on 14 June, scalding six stokers, three of them fatally.
Z38 also tried to launch torpedoes, but had to break off this attack when her funnel caught fire and a boiler tube burst.
The ship was commissioned for preliminary sea trials on 1 April 1892 and one boiler tube burst on 20 June, burning 16 men.
