Sentence examples for detonating impact from inspiring English sources

It recalls the session guitarist Bert Weedon, whose manual on the instrument changed the lives of Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, and the Liverpool ship waiters – known as Cunard Yanks – who returned home from their transatlantic voyages with records that would have a detonating impact on the imaginations of Merseyside teenagers.

This was used to test bombs loaded with explosive (but with inert detonators) to make sure the explosives used were not shock sensitive and would not prematurely detonate upon impact with the target.

Each bomblet detonates on impact, spraying shrapnel in all directions and killing, maiming and destroying indiscriminately.

This usually interrupted the fuel supply, causing the engine to quit, and the weapon detonated upon impact.

They descend by parachute and, if they hit on or near a tank, they detonate on impact; if they miss, they lie on the ground as mines and detonate when a tank approaches.

The 4x4 he was driving detonated on impact, tearing lumps off the checkpoint in Dafniya on the western approach to the coastal city of Misrata, and gouging a crater in the road.

Moreover, in Libya, Yemen, Syria and eastern Ukraine, contamination by unexploded munitions increases every day, with bombs and shells failing to detonate on impact at a very high rate.

Cluster bombs burst open in mid-air and release bomblets that are supposed to detonate on impact, but many of the ones fired on Lebanon did not explode, lying on the ground instead like landmines with the potential to blow up at any time.

A small explosive charge at the front would detonate on impact and rupture the skin, dispersing the chemicals inside.

And in Crimson Shell, Sian has exactly that: bombs that detonate upon impact.

Most of the bombs exploded, but up to 15percentt were duds and failed to detonate on impact.