Sentence examples for detonated when from inspiring English sources

The bomb detonated when policemen were changing shifts, maximizing the human toll.

The bags turned out to be full of explosives and detonated when an armored car full of cash showed up.

It detonated when traffic was passing, and most of the casualties were shoppers at a nearby market.

The shell "partially detonated" when soldiers tried to defuse it, they said, dispersing only a small amount of nerve agent.

Many people said that if the bombs had detonated when they were leaving the mosques, the death toll would have been much higher.

On Wednesday, a motorcycle bomb detonated when Afghan National Army soldiers were in the main Sangin bazaar, killing a soldier and a civilian and wounding six others.

According to Mr. Heslop, 10percentt fail to detonate when air-dropped or planted.

I would detonate when people were fleeing, just like the Boston bombings, and blow them up too.

And fireworks will surely detonate when, in March, Philip Pullman gives his contribution to Canongate's "Myths" series: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

Specialized cells that contain a variety of defensive compounds, from razor-sharp crystals to pain-inducing chemicals, idioblasts detonate when the first line of defense has been breached.

He had been carrying three other devices that did not explode, prompting speculation that he had not intended the bomb to detonate when it did.