Sentence examples for triggered a mine from inspiring English sources

Upon entering the children's hospital, they'd triggered a mine.

The shepherds had triggered a mine, we learned, and two of them were dead.

We considered air-lock ejection, a sailor's funeral, but to send my pedal appendage spinning down to Earth, or, worse, to trigger a mine, seemed florid, flamboyant, a bit of a flambé, and not in the least flame-retardant, even if we wrapped it in a foil boot.

Doctors said they had triggered a land mine while attempting to sneak into Turkey.

Near the top of the mountain, he triggered a land mine which exploded and injured both legs to the extent that one foot was severed in the blast.

LAST year a collapse in a coal mine triggered a small earthquake in Saarland, a speck of a state near Germany's border with France.

The completion of the Human Genome Project triggered a gold rush to mine the genes behind common human traits.

During a pause in hostilities last September, the grandfather returned to harvest his small patch of land near the front and was critically injured when his tractor triggered an anti-tank mine.

Also on Thursday, three soldiers were killed and nine were reported missing when a patrol triggered a series of rebel land mines in the north.

But on August 4 of that year, a mysterious force triggered a mass explosion of dozens of mines.

The discovery of cheaper sources of copper in North Wales in the 1770s triggered a crash in the copper price, and many mines closed.