Sentence examples for detonate from from inspiring English sources

Military explosives must have insensitivity to shock and friction and must be unlikely to detonate from small-arms fire and yet have excellent shattering power.

Wait for grenades to detonate from behind your shield in close quarters, and bounce enemy grenades of it.

It was unclear if the car detonated from the gunshots or if the driver set off the explosion.

As I waited in the parking lot, I walked over to a semi-trailer that looked as if it had been detonated from within.

From aeroplanes to cars, from cafes to sitting rooms, bourgeois repression is not so much dissected as gleefully detonated from within.

In the book he demonstrates his new-found powers by detonating from space the entire arsenal of Soviet and United States nuclear weapons.

Technological improvements have been noted by the military headquarters here, as the improvised explosive devices are being detonated from greater distances.

His coqs vierges are presented at retail like showgirls, the birds' parures (neck and tail feathers) detonating from their haute swaddling: cotton tea towels dyed with the luminous blue pigment of the woad plant.

Terrorists hoping to survive the nuclear blast would have to design and build a complicated machine — a weapon that could be safely transported, armed near the target, and remotely detonated from miles away.

He said the guerrillas were using remote-controlled bombs that could be detonated from about 500 yards away, and wire-controlled explosives that could be set off from more than a mile away.

The wind rises, snow twists in the air, and the venerable honey locust on the edge of the garden cracks and booms as if it's being detonated from within.