Sentence examples for exploded burned from inspiring English sources

The Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned and sank in April 2010.

Rescue helicopters and ships scoured the frigid Atlantic waters off Virginia on Sunday for 18 sailors whose ethanol-laden tanker ship exploded, burned and sank Saturday night.

In April 2010 calamity again befell the state when a deepwater oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of the Louisiana coast, exploded, burned, and then collapsed, creating a rapidly spreading oil spill.

"When the tanker exploded and burned, I knew he was dead," Mr. Gul said.

Thirty-three were killed when the Alva Cape's cargo, 4.2 million gallons of highly flammable naphtha, exploded and burned.

The authorities arrested some of the members in November after an apartment where some suspects lived exploded and burned in eastern Germany.

(My favorite involves a house that Cai constructed in Berlin in 2006 and then artfully exploded and burned; the effect is an exquisite balance of fearsomeness and beauty).

Then came a pivotal moment in January of that championship season when Russell's sense of victimhood was set off to the point where the team's chemistry nearly exploded and burned.

When a reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine exploded and burned in April 1986, the Soviet authorities waited days to inform people of the danger, worsening the loss of life.

Latex Foam was founded by former workers of the Sponge Rubber Products Company, whose plant at a former tire factory in nearby Shelton exploded and burned in 1975 in what the F.B.I. said at the time was the nation's largest arson case.

By most accounts, including his own, Mr. Jackson began getting hooked on pain medication after an accident during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in 1984 in which some special effects exploded and burned his scalp.