Sentence examples for setting off explosives from inspiring English sources

The worker's new job: setting off explosives.

The report said the man, Ma Hongqing, is suspected of setting off explosives to seek revenge on neighbors.

PLUAK DAENG, THAILAND — About the time grenades were exploding in Bangkok during the recent tumultuous street protests, workers contracted by Ford Motor here were also setting off explosives.

In the south of Baghdad, gunmen burst into a police station in the town of Mussayab on Saturday and forced police into a cell before setting off explosives.

It's also the time for festivals and celebration, an evening of quasi-pagan doorstep extortion followed by burning a man in effigy and setting off explosives.

A Thai police chief said Wednesday that the Iranians who were "arrested after accidentally setting off explosives at their rented home in Bangkok were plotting to attack Israeli diplomats," The Associated Press reports.

On Tuesday, insurgent fighters set off explosives in a Damascus school that they claimed was used as a base for the military and for a feared government militia.

On land, companies do this by setting off explosive charges underground or using seismic vibrators trucks that pummel the earth with hydraulic plates.

Officials first claimed that the militants had set off explosives and set fire to mattresses inside Nakumatt supermarket.

Early reports said the attacker today had set off explosives as he approached a group of Israeli border policemen.

In his guilty plea to conspiracy charges, Najibullah Zazi often referred to other unnamed people in their plan to set off explosives on the New York subway system.