Sentence examples for is detonated from inspiring English sources
verb
To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression.
The first truth bomb is detonated with an odd elegance.
Depending on the circumstances, obsolete ammunition is detonated in a controlled fashion several times a week.
An electromagnetic pulse bomb is detonated high overhead, disabling electronics and power.
In the course of the team's investigation a nuclear device is detonated.
It was the warning shot before a dirty bomb is detonated downtown.
A hypothetical scenario is considered where a Radiation Dispersal Device (RDD) with Cs-137 is detonated in a small inhabited area whose drainage system is realistically modeled.
In reality, all this device can do is detonate the powder charge within a bullet casing.
Today it was detonated, as it were.
The van was detonated outside the Sari Club.
Hours later two smaller devices were detonated.
The bombs were detonated in controlled explosions.
