Sentence examples for the detonation from inspiring English sources

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the detonation

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An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances as, the detonation of gun cotton. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.

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The detonation was successful".

The detonation shook the valley.

How to depict the detonation puzzled Adams from the start.

The detonation of the parliamentary expenses scandal still reverberates.

The detonation had nearly vaporized the four-story headquarters building.

Then came the detonation, giving scientists some messiness to study.

As a sailor, he had witnessed from a distance the detonation over Hiroshima.

Throughout the scene, there are premonitions of the detonation to come.

"The detonation," King writes, "sounded like Hiroshima and looked similar from above.

The Detonation Event — no one knows what else to call it — turned the entire world white.

Lance Corporal Mathison's weight triggered the detonation of one of the booby trap's two blasting caps.

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