Sentence examples for detonated against from inspiring English sources

The small boat then detonated against the side of the Cole.

Also in Baghdad, two homemade bombs were detonated against officers from the Ministry of Interior commando forces, killing one and wounding seven, the official said.

Seventeen American sailors were killed when a skiff loaded with explosives detonated against the side of the Cole on Oct. 12.

Then an explosion ripped through the air as a rocket-propelled grenade detonated against the Humvee that I had just abandoned.

"Fifteen IEDs (improvised explosive devices) were detonated against army and police convoys and vehicles around the prison," IS said in a statement posted online, according to the BBC.

So far a tense calm has remained over the city despite a few skirmishes and a car bomb detonated against the Assad forces and claimed by Jubhat al-Nusra.

The identification was made using a photograph of one of the unexploded mines, along with images of parts of the remnants of several others that were destroyed either by detonating against the truck or by being struck by the rebels' bullets.

Insurgents have turned increasingly this year to using roadside bombs and remotely detonated explosions against foreign forces and others involved in development in Afghanistan.

An F.B.I. official said last month in a court hearing in Boston that forensic experts had determined that the plastic explosives in Mr. Reid's shoes could have blown a hole in the aircraft's fuselage and destroyed the jetliner if he had detonated the bomb against the airliner's hull.

Sinop detonated her torpedo against a boat that was protecting Âsâr-ı Tevfik, causing only minor damage to the ironclad, though the Russians initially believed they had sunk her.

Objective No. 13 was a casemate housing multiple machine-guns whose arcs of fire covered the western side of the Fort; to destroy the casemate, the airborne troops used a flamethrower to force the Belgian soldiers manning the weapons to retreat, and then detonated shaped charges against the fortification to disable it.