Sentence examples for exploded upon from inspiring English sources

Scientists believe the meteor exploded upon hitting the lower atmosphere and disintegrated at an altitude of about 20 to 30 miles above the Earth's surface — not an especially unusual event, the statement said.

They city exploded upon him, bursting through the ring of white shells that crowned his head.

On at least three occasions, the rubber tires on Concorde's landing gear have also exploded upon landing.

A development equal in importance to the rifling of naval guns was the replacement of solid iron cannonballs with large shells that exploded upon impact.

Not long after the start of the Syrian civil war, from the heights of the Qasioun mountain north of Damascus, I watched with Syrian friends as the first shells exploded upon the Yarmouk Palestinian camp.

For the literary scholar Morris Dickstein's purposes, the leopards are the newer, more cosmopolitan writers -- black, beatnik, Jewish, homosexual -- who exploded upon the artificially unified temple of American letters at the end of World War II.

Some explode upon striking a solid object.

Male honeybees explode upon climax, leaving their genitals behind in the queen as a chastity belt.

Most nitrites are soluble in water and in concentrated forms, like nitrates, can explode upon heating or detonation.

But the rest of it explodes upon impact, sending shrapnel and fragments flying with blind fury and frightening momentum.

Some bomblets fail to explode upon hitting the ground and can remain a deadly hazard long after the fighting is over.