Sentence examples for distant explosion from inspiring English sources

A distant explosion sounded.

Though the weapon was unarmed, witnesses said they were struck more than anything by the striking beauty of the distant explosion.

The sky was filled with tracers and a few times the alarm warning of rockets was interrupted by the whistle of them overhead, and a close or distant explosion.

Lopatin sets up this chord-and-melody relationship and then refuses to make it repeat concisely; instead, he surrounds the notes with a billowing sound, like a distant explosion, and a drone envelops the song as the piano finally settles on four chords, which repeat for two minutes, until, abruptly, the song ends.

Jokey routines with gas masks, rifles, bayonets and helmets indicate just how far this up-itself crew has trivialised the horror of the first world war, though billowing curtains - as if blown in by some distant explosion - are a reminder of their ongoing insecurity.

When light from the supernova's distant explosion first reached Earth about 400 years ago, it could have outshone its parent galaxy for several days and was probably visible to the naked eye for months.

As she spoke, distant explosions could be heard in the background.

"Distant explosions is not a cool feel right now," one Twitter user posted.

Those debilitating bogeys coincided with the distant explosions of cheering that signalled successes elsewhere.

That night the sky blazed with tracer gunfire and distant explosions.

Distant explosions of road-clearing dynamite mingled with the whistles of Hmong woodwinds played by young goatherds.