Sentence examples for nearly detonated from inspiring English sources

Tensions among the White House, the intelligence director and Congressional oversight committees escalated after a young Nigerian man nearly detonated a bomb on a trans-Atlantic flight on Dec. 25.

Additionally, medics were often at risk of injury from antipersonnel landmines, with many reportedly triggering or nearly detonating landmines (n = 8).

A car bomb detonated nearly simultaneously outside a beachfront hotel on the other side of town killed 13 people.

The first suicide bombing in nearly a month detonated nail-studded explosives as a bus opened its doors to pick up passengers.

Two years ago, a Yazidi village near Sinjar was devastated by one of the worst bombings in Iraq since the American invasion in 2003, when four trucks laden with explosives detonated nearly simultaneously, killing 313 people and wounding 704 more.

Lebanese security officials said the bomb weighed nearly seven pounds, was detonated remotely and had been left in a trash bin along the route.

The test site, where nearly 1,000 nuclear weapons were detonated before testing was halted in 1992, already has barracks and other buildings that the senators say make it ideal for large-scale training of SWAT teams and the like.

The mine detonated near his car.

It was early March, and nearly two years had passed since Tsarnaev, along with his older brother, Tamerlan, detonated two homemade bombs near the finish line of the marathon, killing three people and injuring two hundred and sixty-four; they then carjacked a Mercedes, murdered an M.I.T. police officer named Sean Collier, and engaged in a shootout with the cops.

It detonated at 11.20am, on 15 June 1996, nearly two hours after Granada TV studios received a call claiming that there was a bomb at the corner of Corporation Street and Cannon Street.

The force of the explosion – equivalent to 10 times all the explosives expended in World War II – caused the bomber to fall over a kilometre in height even though it was nearly 45km away (28 miles) when the device detonated.