'explodes' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe the sudden bursting of something into pieces or when something increases rapidly. For example: "The demand for our new product exploded, and it quickly became a bestseller."
Schumer's head promptly explodes at the contradictions of contemporary womanhood.
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 26 , 2012Car bomb explodes in southern Damascus; initial reports of large numbers of casualties: activists Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.26pm BST17:26 Claims of ceasefire breaches on both sites Both the Syrian army and the activists have accused each other side of breaching the ceasefire.
And when the lightning arrives – caused by heat, humidity and Andean winds, and accompanied by roaring thunder – it explodes in all directions burning jagged bolts into your retina.
4. Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer Eoin Colfer's sonic grenade generates a different kind of explosion: no smoke, no flames, just a solid wall of sound that blows out every window and eardrum within a 10 metre radius of the restaurant where it explodes.
Tuesday's bureau of justice statistics (BJS) report, produced in collaboration with RTI International, the research institute, explodes the notion – if its findings are accurate – that the figures the FBI publishes annually are anything other than hugely misleading.
It's how fibreglass is made, he explains and then drops this demonstration sample into a bin where it later explodes and threatens to catapult across the room.
But Rogen later emailed to confirm he had removed some gory details, including "flaming hair" and a wave of "head chunks" from a scene in which Kim Jong-un's head explodes after being struck by a tank shell.
I've become un-desensitised to Hollywood violence over the years, so I'd much rather watch extras give it their best slow-motion collapse after being shot (falling off a roof is a particular favourite), or spin into their air in balletic twirls after a grenade explodes vaguely near them, than the realism-porn of today's action flicks.
The sweetie explodes in lightning bolts.
Intermittently through the book, he explodes in disgust at his subject or in appeals for Catholics to apologise for what happened to the Jews.
Except when a bomb explodes in Colombo, southerners are shielded by distance and by censorship.
