Sentence examples for detonate and from inspiring English sources

I tried to detonate and it failed.

(Her husband's bomb did detonate, and thirty-eight members of the bridal party were killed).

As it was, their homemade bombs did not detonate, and they were forced to improvise.

It failed to detonate and Warsaw — and all Europe — suffered the consequences.

The patrol prepares to detonate and clear a potential slide, and Brill offers this advice: "It's going to be big".

One looked down the barrel of a mortar launcher when it would not detonate, and it exploded in his face.

The insurgency has so far favored the tactics of detonate-and-run, but any quick-thinking fighter in the crowd might realize that he could instigate a bloodbath by firing a round at the sitting ducks by their Humvees.

They were never detonated, and remain buried in the forest.

Home-made explosives were detonated and the police were attacked with knives.

The bomb detonated and killed him after he was taken into custody.

Only one of the three bombs had detonated and no one was injured.