Sentence examples for difficult to detonate from inspiring English sources

PETN is difficult to detonate with a naked flame, as demonstrated by the shoe bomber Richard Reid, who tried to bring down an American Airlines flight in 2001 with PETN concealed in one of his boots.

The alternative explanation is that the bomb penetrated the armored decks and detonated directly inside one of the starboard magazines for the main armament, but smokeless powder is relatively difficult to detonate.

The bomb failed to detonate.

Each word timed and set to detonate.

(Rishawi's suicide belt failed to detonate).

I tried to detonate and it failed.

But the copycats' explosives failed to detonate.

Some fail to detonate on contact.

All four bombs failed to detonate.

Asif Hanif detonated his explosives; those strapped to his accomplice, Omar Khan Sharif, failed to detonate.

A bomb squad was summoned to detonate it.