Sentence examples for detonate like from inspiring English sources

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Those that fail to explode on impact can still detonate like land mines when disturbed later.

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The car detonated like a bomb.

Inevitably, tragedy strikes, but the giddy prose never stops, detonating like a string of firecrackers.

Less than a minute into the second round it was over, Roman toppled by a chopping right that detonated like a bomb behind his left ear.

In the context of a fiery debate, the Atlanta school cheating scandal, the largest in recent history, detonates like a bomb, fueling critics who say that standardized testing as a way to measure student achievement should be scaled back.

When "Lolita" finally did appear in America, in November , 1958 it indeed detonated like a time-delayed explosive: it drew an outraged review by the lead critic of the Times, Orville Prescott, who called it "repulsive …highbrow pornography," and became an instant best-seller, breaking the record for one-week sales set by "Gone with the Wind".

The CBSO Chorus hung on his every gesture – in the fugues of the Sanctus and the final Libera Me, detonated like explosions of joy, as much as in the whispered closing moments of the work, with the solo soprano Kristine Opolais etched above them.

"I knew what I was hearing and that was a guy who could give his music a crackle and growl and scream, could detonate it like a stack of dynamite, but do it all in the music, in the groove, true to the integrity of his musical sources," Baker writes of Hendrix.

"I knew what I was hearing and that was a guy who could give his music a crackle and growl and scream, could detonate it like a stack of dynamite, but do it all in_ the music, in _the groove, true to the integrity of his musical sources," Baker writes of Hendrix.

C4 can be detonated whenever you like.

Wells was 8-10 with a 5.62 earned run average at Fenway before tonight, which is why he has often mentioned how he would like to detonate the ancient ballpark.

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