Sentence examples for exploded about from inspiring English sources
The attacker rammed the gates of the embassy with a Mitsubishi Delica that exploded about 160 feet into the compound.
A missing volunteer firefighter who was battling the fire in West, Tex., when the plant exploded about 8 p.m. Wednesday has been found wounded in a hospital.
The bomb exploded about 6 45 p.m. at the bus depot in the town of Piliyandala, just south of Colombo, the capital.
The powerful suicide car bomb exploded about noon in central Kabul near the heart of the American and NATO military command.
Security officials said that the devastation came when two pairs of truck bombs exploded about five miles apart in an area close to the Syrian border in what is known as the Shaam Desert.
The truck exploded about 30 yards from his vehicle Saturday morning.
On Sunday night, a dry ice bomb exploded about 7 p.m. in a restroom at Terminal 2, which is home to several international and domestic airlines.
The researchers focused on a supernova named SN 2013cu, which exploded about 360 million light-years away from Earth in the Bootes constellation.
The "fireball," NASA's term for an exceptionally bright meteor visible over a wide area, exploded about 16 miles above the Bering Sea on Dec. 18.
The steam-powered tractor was being moved into place for an outdoor exhibit of antique farm equipment when it exploded about 6 30 p.m., Medina County Sheriff Neil Hassinger said.
The bomb exploded about 50 feet from the building.
