Sentence examples for detonating on from inspiring English sources

The idyll of the twilight woods around us was being severely compromised, just then, by what might reasonably have passed for the soundtrack of the end of the world: the droning of airplanes and the shouting of soldiers and the thunder of bombshells detonating on every side.

While his recent opponents were punching down and over him, the tip of my straight punches will be detonating on his jaw".

But recently, Ankara has had to come to terms with its own domestic dangers, from renewed clashes with Kurdish militants known for their often-violent fight for greater freedoms to suicide bombers from the self-described Islamic State detonating on Turkish soil.

During these trials, a skilled user was unable to hit a target more than 60% of the time at 100 yards, and faulty fuses meant that only 75% of the bombs fired detonated on-target.

One victim, Zulkifli, said the band had performed several songs when the bomb detonated on one side of the stage.

So suppose a ten-kiloton bomb — smaller than the one that fell on Hiroshima — detonated on Wall Street, eight miles south.

Even so, the fear for one's own security has been detonated on a massive scale, not just by the movements of land and sea, but also by the invisible threat of radioactivity, its ultimate consequences still uncertain.

Some fail to detonate on contact.

But it did not detonate on the first floor.

BERLIN — A magnetic bomb detonated on a diplomatic car in New Delhi.

An unprecedented crime 10 backpacks filled with explosives were detonated on four commuter trains.