Sentence examples for instead of explode from inspiring English sources

Unlike the brittle autocracies in most of the Arab world that shattered when challenged, Iran has a robust civil society combined with quasi-democratic institutions put in place after the revolution in 1979 that seemingly enable the country to evolve instead of explode.

Somehow, Bowa swallowed instead of exploded when his players complained.

Instead of exploding, the bomb fizzled in the back of Mr. Shahzad's 1993 Nissan Pathfinder in Times Square on June 21.

Instead of exploding, however, his bomb, hidden in the back of a sports utility vehicle, made a sputtered sound.

"The only reason the guys who survived did so was because the doors imploded and jammed instead of exploding outwards.

But instead of exploding into erotic fireworks, the seething domestic drama becomes a meditation on China's gradual recovery from the trauma of war and the Japanese occupation.

These were altered so that instead of exploding upon striking the ground or on a timed fuze after traveling through the air they would explode in a mortar tube as fired, thus destroying the entire mortar system – tube, bipod, baseplate, sight and man.

Simulations of the planes' passage through the buildings may also explain the mystery of why some people on the very floors the planes struck could survive the impact: instead of exploding horizontally, the shattered planes were actually somewhat compacted by the dynamics of the crashes.

But instead of exploding, it's probably safer to take a deep breath and hold those emotions in check.

Instead of exploding tissue structures under high temperatures, ArthroCare says its technology more gently dissolves target tissue, minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

Her invention of a coiled tube that allowed fuel to cool instead of exploding was a crucial advance in the space race, and she is the lead author of a 1967 paper, "Constant Pressure Flame Calorimetry with Fluorine II.