Sentence examples for instead of exploding from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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.

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

"When they got into these really negative interactions, gay and lesbian couples were able to do things like use humor and affection that enabled them to step back from the ledge and continue to talk about the problem instead of just exploding," said Robert W. Levenson, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Here the show felt stripped of some of its previous quiet, detached cool and was instead angry, confrontational, on the verge of exploding.

Everything that's capable of exploding explodes.

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