Sentence examples for but failed to explode from inspiring English sources

One slammed through the roof of a small synagogue but failed to explode.

Two of the 500-pound bombs landed near the surgical wards but failed to explode.

One of the rockets landed but failed to explode near a kindergarten in an Israeli village east of Gaza.

He also had luck: on another occasion, with bombs dropping, those below heard a clang against Intrepid's side; one had hit but failed to explode.

The indicators were plain: sliders that spun but did not swerve, fastballs that whizzed but failed to explode, changeups that floated along capricious paths.

In Holland, he escaped death yet again, when a shell glanced off the door of his armoured car but failed to explode.

They also threw a grenade under the bus, but it failed to explode.

In 1972 he was sent a letter bomb, but it failed to explode because of faulty wiring.

But gilts failed to explode, and PIMCO was forced to reverse course.He is also synonymous with the controversy PIMCO courted during the financial crisis.

In 1972 South Africa's security services sent him a letter bomb, which his sister Sally opened over the breakfast table but which failed to explode.

In her confession, she said she walked into the hotel and tried to detonate her belt, but it failed to explode and she fled.