Sentence examples for detonated about from inspiring English sources

In the attack in Ramadi, two bombs were detonated about 8 30 p.m. in the center of the city.

Police closed down and evacuated the area to allow the county bomb squad to investigate the device, which they detonated about 7 40 p.m., Lorenz said.

The next four car bombs were detonated about every 10 minutes, beginning at 11 a.m.

The bomb detonated about 10 35 on Friday morning in a parking lot behind the embassy.

It, in turn, would have detonated about 14 ounces of PETN, one of the most powerful explosives known.

Two more bombs aimed at the police detonated about 9 20 a.m., killing two civilians and wounding 10 others.

Within seconds, the torpedo struck the New Ironsides, detonating about seven feet below the waterline just under the starboard quarter.

On Saturday, the guerrillas volunteered to get an early start on disarmament, detonating about 1,400 pounds of explosives and other military ordnance in the presence of observers from the United Nations.

The Institute of Physics asked physicists from the Centre for Explosion Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, to use explosion physics to work out the effects of detonating about 36 barrels [5,511lb] of gunpowder, the amount Fawkes had packed in a cellar under the old Westminster hall.

A7 Saudi Arabia Foils Bomb Attack A suicide bomb attack on Saudi Arabia's most important oil and gas facility was thwarted when guards fired on two explosive-laden cars, causing them to detonate about a mile from the entrance, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.

The car that detonated held about 500 pounds of explosives, an American military spokesman said.