Sentence examples for explosion spread from inspiring English sources

As word of the explosion spread, it seemed to confirm the recurring fears in Benghazi that Colonel Qaddafi's followers were living silently among them and intent on attacking symbols of fledgling rebel power, or the movement's followers.

When word of the explosion spread through the mine on a special paging system, 10 men working elsewhere raced to the site, three miles from the main elevator that took them underground.

The Greenpeace report, issued last week, said that as the fire from the explosion spread, large quantities of oil were deliberately released from onshore tanks to avert devastating damage to a tank at the storage facility that was filled with dimethylbenzene, a flammable and poisonous chemical used to make aviation fuel and solvents.

First of all, DTFR uses the Explosion, Spread, and Lock Phases to counter the fact that the destination is moving.

The fire from the explosion spread into adjacent neighborhoods and injured 23 people.

The fire from that explosion spread to the ship's secondary magazines, which exploded in turn.

began the same process The attack on India's financial capital saw the 13 explosions, spread over three hours, leave 260 people dead.

At least seven explosions spread carnage in neighborhoods across Baghdad over the course of the day — from a clothing store in Dora to a market in Rahmaniya, from mosques in Huriya and Amin to the three bombs near the Sadr office.

Muammar el-Qaddafi's sprawling compound on Tuesday, overwhelming what remained of its defenses and running pell-mell through the grounds, as the crackle of gunfire and rumble of explosions spread across a confused and wary Libyan capital in spasms of renewed fighting".

Chernobyl Recalled Chernobyl still haunts, 20 years after the reactor explosion there spread its radioactive plume.

A dirty bomb is one in which radioactive materials are dispersed through a conventional explosion to spread radioactivity.