Sentence examples for great explosion from inspiring English sources

On Sept. 16, 1920, just as the Trinity Church bells tolled the noon hour, a great explosion rocked the corner of Wall and Nassau -- a wagon filled with explosives and shrapnel went up, killing at least 36 people.

But back to The Great Explosion.

Brian Dillon's The Great Explosion is published by Penguin.

Twenty-plus million people left the British Isles in this great explosion of human migration.

These lines reverberate outwards like the aftershock of a great explosion.

Brian Dillon's The Great Explosion (Penguin) was recently shortlisted for the Ondaatje prize.

And when they die in great explosions, stars create exotic pulsars, black holes, nebulae, and people.

But he conjures a sense of terror more in glints and echoes than in great explosions.

Somehow their great explosions, followed only afterward by the sound of the approaching rocket, unnerved him, he said.

And it's all achieved with magnificent subtlety: great explosions of overconfident bluster are undermined by a single sideways glance.

In his subsequent life Roth clearly equated such freedom – to be honest and perhaps to be cruel – with his great explosions of creativity.