Sentence examples for try to detonate from inspiring English sources

Among the concerns is that terrorists will ingest explosives and try to detonate them on a commercial flight, the officials said.

Driven by two 'Asian-looking' men, it came to a halt as they threw petrol over it and appeared to try to detonate the vehicle.

Today, investigators were trying to establish exactly what provoked him to try to detonate an explosive device as a Northwest Airlines jet made its final descent into Detroit airport on Christmas Day.

The man, identified in court documents as Richard Colvin Reid, a British citizen who may be of Jamaican ancestry, was tackled and tied to his seat after he was seen lighting two matches and appearing to try to detonate the explosives during the flight from Paris to Miami.

I tried to detonate and it failed.

And most recently, a man tried to detonate a shoe bomb on a flight to Miami.

As policemen overpowered him, he tried to detonate the bomb, but it failed to go off.

When the driver thwarted their attempt to hijack the vehicle, they tried to detonate the homemade bombs they were carrying.

Agents said he tried to detonate a fake bomb outside a recruitment center in Catonsville, a Baltimore suburb.

On July 5th, the Iraqi police said they had arrested two Iranians for trying to detonate a car bomb.

He was then overpowered by a fireman as he allegedly tried to detonate cannisters of chemicals in a second warehouse.