Sentence examples for shocking explosion from inspiring English sources

We all saw those poor people, struggling across a finish line, only to be blown backwards by the force of a truly shocking explosion.

On a parallel street, protesters overran a column of armoured personnel carriers, whose captured crewmen were later paraded on the rally stage, along with the corpses of two protesters.After the shocking explosion of hatred and violence, tensions eased a bit this week as Bangkokians celebrated the Thai new year holiday.

"I heard a horrible and shocking explosion, and there were people who had been standing in the yard and suddenly, no one was standing — they were on the ground," said Abu Khalid, 33, a teacher and tribal leader who had gone to wash his hands when the bomb went off.

I thank God for saving me in that shocking explosion, but you never know -- what if I had been there?

The Leno-O'Brien fracas is both shocking — an explosion of incivility that burns through late-night bonhomie — and also reassuring.

It was just after nine in the morning, about eighteen hours after the marathon came to its sudden and shocking conclusion: two explosions that left three people dead, at least a hundred and seventy wounded, and a city moving through a second crisp, clear day in a kind of dull shock.

But nothing in his résumé prepares you for the shocking realism of this explosion, which proves all the more terrible because here it is also so very commonplace.

Basketball, football, soccer, and hockey all break up their stretches of standing around, posing, ref-beseeching, and traumatic brain injury with explosions of sudden, shocking physical grace.

But the smells were less shocking than the light and the noise: an explosion reported at a Con Edison transformer station — a plant near the far east end of Fourteenth Street, with a Little League baseball field tucked next to it — an event in a different category than the precautionary shutdowns that Con Ed had called customers about all day.

Such buildings, looking like angular explosions of metal and glass, served as shocking disruptions of their traditional surroundings and of people's expectations of architecture.

In the wake of Enron, Kmart's Chapter 11 filing and the shocking accounting problems at Global Crossing, Tyco and others, there is an explosion of interest in the market for insuring against credit defaults.