Sentence examples for the detonating from inspiring English sources
verb
To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression.
As a preliminary step, Ruest produced an experimental bomb that lacked only dynamite and put it in a cardboard box, and while he and Guay cowered in the next room, the alarm clock set off the detonator and this exploded the detonating cap.
The detonating event appears to have been a fight instigated by a perceived insult.
Perhaps because the song has long been acknowledged as one of the detonating blasts of the '50s rock 'n' roll explosion, Kirby feels compelled to up the stakes.
The detonating qualities of strong emotion appear in several stories, but Wilson is equally preoccupied with the absurdity of his imagined modern world.
The Detonating The C-Bomb episode has proved predictably popular, while one titled Post-Love finds listeners sharing their worst breakup lines.
"We did find small materials for IEDs, like maybe a small piece of the wire, the detonating cord," said Sergeant Cannon.
Black soot from the detonated Black Hawk charred the wall of the animal pen.
Moments later, the driver detonated the explosives in the car.
The Americans detonated the first deliverable form of the H-bomb on Bikini atoll 50 years ago this month.
The family detonates the cache of explosives and flee the cave.
When the trigger was pulled, the hammer fell, detonating the compound.
