Sentence examples for ignited a fireball from inspiring English sources

The gasoline ignited a fireball that raced more than a mile down a creek.

At this time a violent explosion ignited a fireball visible forty miles away.

On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, an explosion on the rig caused by a blowout killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 mile away.

A little more than a minute after launch, flames shot out of the booster joint, melted through the nearby hydrogen fuel tank and ignited a fireball that was watched by the astronauts' families and much of the nation on television.

A powerful bomb ripped apart an Israeli commuter bus in northern Galilee early Sunday morning, igniting a fireball that left 9 people dead and wounded 45, beginning a burst of widespread Palestinian violence that defied Israel's tough crackdown.

A powerful bomb ripped apart an Israeli commuter bus in northern Galilee, igniting a fireball that killed 9 people and wounded 45, beginning a burst of Palestinian violence that defied Israel's tough crackdown.

The lore that now surrounds him includes the story that when repair workers were afraid of approaching a pipe that had ruptured -- a spark could ignite a fireball -- Alekperov went to the pipe, sat on it and told the workers to get to work.

If the evaporated liquid is combustible and gets ignited, a huge fireball will most often be generated.

In June , 1999 the failure of computer control systems caused a gasoline pipeline rupture in Bellingham, in Washington State; the leaking gasoline ignited into a fireball, killing three people.

At 9.07am on 1 September, a SpaceX rocket containing 75,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene ignited into a fireball that could be seen from orbit, billowing black smoke into the gray sky around its Cape Canaveral launch pad.

A crack in the bottom pipe caused leakage of LPG for about 20 min forming a large vapor cloud, which got ignited, creating a fireball and a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) situation in the LPG tank with subsequent fire and explosion.