Sentence examples for was detonating from inspiring English sources

The bomb he thought he was detonating was actually a fake, and his presumed associates were F.B.I. agents.

The Reverend Lucy Winkett, who might have been expected to become a woman bishop, wrote that the Synod was "detonating its credibility with contemporary Britain".

The man, Antonio Martinez, who now calls himself Muhammad Hussain, thought he was detonating a real car bomb at the Catonsville recruiting office, according to a criminal complaint filed against him in federal court.

F.B.I. officials said that a Somali-born suspect thought he was detonating a car bomb in a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, when in fact he had been set up in a sting.

PORTLAND, Ore .— A Somali-born teenager who thought he was detonating a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony downtown here was arrested by the authorities on Friday night after federal agents said that they had spent nearly six months setting up a sting operation.

PORTLAND, Ore .— A defense lawyer for a 21-year-old Somali-American told a federal jury here on Friday that his client did in fact push a cellphone button on a night in late November 2010 believing he was detonating a truck bomb that would kill hundreds or thousands of people who had gathered to watch downtown Portland's Christmas lights come on.

Today it was detonated, as it were.

The van was detonated outside the Sari Club.

On November 21st it was detonated, as it were.

The first true Soviet H-bomb was detonated in 1955.

There were conflicting reports about how the bomb was detonated.