Sentence examples for explosion touched off from inspiring English sources

Three years later, on Sept. 18, 1931, an explosion touched off the Mukden Incident.

The explosion touched off a stampede as fire and smoke billowed from the stores.

An explosion touched off a fire in a restaurant/karaoke complex, which was gutted by the blaze; at least 64 patrons were killed, many of them trapped behind iron-barred windows and a locked rear-door exit.

His expulsion touched off riots and demonstrations.

'GHANA SOUNDZ: AFRO-BEAT, FUNK AND FUSION IN 70'S GHANA' (Soundway) A West Africa funk explosion was touched off in the late 1960's by the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti from Nigeria and by American music, particularly James Brown and Santana.

The explosion of wealth touched off by technology and by an almost one-way stock market has produced a wave of extravagant consumption.

The Defense Ministry said the explosions were probably touched off by the late-summer heat.

They said the explosion might have been touched off by workers in the basement who were transferring chemicals used for etching from a leaky 55-gallon drum to another container.

Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen, who spent the night supervising several hundred firefighters, said the explosion could have been touched off by something as simple as someone turning on a light or lighting a match.

"It's a great study," Gravendeel says, and it shows how orchids owe their diversity to a series of innovations above all, the ability to grow in tropical mountains that individually or jointly touched off explosions of new species.

He had touched off an explosion".