Sentence examples for explosion blew off from inspiring English sources

A gas explosion blew off three manhole covers in downtown Newark yesterday, injuring seven pedestrians.

As Captain Goodwin prepared one of his boasted breech-loading cannons for exhibition, a premature explosion blew off one of the inventor's hands and blinded him.

Firefighters responded after an explosion blew off a manhole cover about 9 30 p.m. in the 900 block of Leggett Avenue in Longwood, fire officials and a spokeswoman for Con Edison said.

When an explosion blew off Unit 4's roof on 15 March, plant operators assumed the cause was hydrogen and they feared it had come from fuel in the pool that had been exposed to air.

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Inside the refinery, the explosion blew off sections of an electrostatic precipitator and damaged other nearby equipment.

Minutes later and some 100 feet to the north, two more explosions blew off a pair of larger, heavier covers from square sidewalk electrical boxes a few feet apart.

Body parts were stolen by pranksters and vandals ignited an explosion that blew off the head of the statue.

Reactor No 4 had been shut down for maintenance checks when the quake and subsequent tsunami struck, but a hydrogen explosion days later blew off its roof and exposed the fuel pool, located 100 feet above ground, to the elements.

The explosion blew out the roof of the bus, peeled off its sides and sprayed the street with metal and blood.

He has one eye and a steel hook in place of his right forearm, the legacy of an explosion in Afghanistan that blew off both his arms.