Sentence examples for explosion going off from inspiring English sources

I heard her girlish voice; then I heard the sounds of gunfire, and of an explosion going off nearby.

"Cocaine and ego," Neil Young once reliably informed me, "You put the two together and it's like an explosion going off".

"You could see these little figures scurrying, and the explosion going off, and when the smoke cleared there was just rubble and charred stuff," a former C.I.A. officer who was based in Afghanistan after September 11th says of one attack.

It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

"The explosion went off.

"Apparently, the explosion went off early.

Then a huge explosion went off.

"An explosion went off," the police told the agency.

Second explosion went off about 10 seconds after the first.

"But sadly, the explosion went off before she was isolated".

A small atomic explosion went off in every cell.