Sentence examples for was to explode from inspiring English sources
"The aim of the terrorists was to explode the gas compound," he said.
Some of this anger was to explode in the crisis of the 1990s.
For Schoenberg, the only way forward was to explode the old certainties of harmony and tonality.
His shared project with Saint Phalle was to explode everything: monogamy, monotony, art, propriety.
The anger was to explode on an even larger scale with the outbreak of the war on Iraq in March 2003.
He said the worst case scenario would be "that some of the fission fragments and fuel could be widely dispersed if the vessel was to explode.
The plan may have been to explode them en route, perhaps as the plane was landing.
It is to explode after a short flight, without intercepting an incoming missile.
All bets are off, however, if gilt yields were to explode.
The first thing any information strategy should do is to explode these attitudes, somehow.
It feels like things are about to explode; it's exciting".
