Sentence examples for like it exploded from inspiring English sources
"It sounded like it exploded not far from our house," I say.
No doubt that with updated reporting and analysis we will find that number and others like it exploding.
As you find the components among the rubble, you start to piece together a picture of what the bomb looked like before it exploded.
Halvdan Koht, an early biographer of Ibsen, records that it "exploded like a bomb into contemporary life" and "pronounced a death sentence on accepted social ethics".
It exploded like chains of firecrackers". .
Given the current sociopolitical climate, it exploded like wildfire.
And then it exploded like a powder keg.
Jason Shelton, 33, a clerk at the Czech Best Western Hotel, told the Dallas Morning News: "It was a small fire and then water got sprayed on [it] and it exploded just like the Oklahoma City bomb… I live about a thousand feet from it and it blew my screen door off, and my back windows".
Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Janelle Monáe and P!nk all fell by the wayside as the singer-songwriter, aged just 17, was announced as the winner by Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw "I'm still so new to getting awards like this that my brain still feels like its exploding every time it happens, so forgive me," Lorde said, as she thanked the "inspirational women" in her category.
A puff of smoke is not what a mortar looks like when it explodes, believe me.
Even the trickier forms of drug taking (such as rolling a spliff without it exploding like a burst teabag) only require a modicum of patience and practice.
