Sentence examples for detonate off from inspiring English sources

The nuclear bomb that was set to detonate off the coast was invented for this purpose.

Though this film seems to be a radical departure from Emmerich's previous special effects extravaganzas — "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow" — "Anonymous" contains no shortage of combustible material; only in this case, the explosions have been designed to detonate off camera, in fiery debates among academics, the media, and moviegoers.

"I think there's a high degree of probability that something will detonate, something will go off, but I do think it's probably most likely to happen outside of the ring of steel and the Olympic Village".

A remotely detonated bomb went off in Pashtunistan Square, near the center of the city and the main bazaar.

The motorcycle attackers attached the bombs to the professors' cars, then drove off, detonating them from a distance, according to Iranian news media reports.

Detonating shells set off supersonic blast waves that slow down and become sound waves; such waves have been linked to traumatic brain injury, once known as shell shock.

Even our nasty subways look like a sexy rainbow explosion detonated the pants off every single hot girl--and basically they're all hot.

But the explosives in the warhead didn't detonate; that would have set off a chain reaction.

One shell at 16:00 struck the right upper corner of the left hand gun port at the junction of the face plate and the roof, and punched a piece of the 9-inch face plate into the turret before detonating, blowing off the armoured roof of the turret and starting a fire, which a damage control party working from outside the turret fought to put out.

The triggers on canisters of propane gas went off but failed to detonate an explosion.

If a B-29 crashed with a Little Boy, the fire could cook off the explosive and detonate the weapon, with catastrophic consequences.