Sentence examples for were exploded from inspiring English sources
verb
To destroy with an explosion.
- The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.
By 1820 an engine was built in England in which hydrogen-air mixtures were exploded in a chamber.
The first series of bombs (1966 74) were exploded in the atmosphere and thereby created a large amount of radioactive fallout.
The Isthmian engineering would be absolutely safe & the bill for the job would come to 4 & a quarter billion less than if ordinary charges were exploded.
Consider the Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo's take on this utilitarian garment, in which the parts were exploded and then Franken-stitched together again.
His statement also said that there had been a 125percentt increase in the rate at which car bombs were discovered by security forces before they were exploded by insurgents.
Even the atomic bombs that were exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki owed something to him, for in 1943 he joined the Manhattan Project as a research chemist, developing porous nickel screens for separating atomic particles.
Communication and trade were exploding.
The bombs were exploding everywhere.
Everything was burning; things were exploding.
Volcanoes were exploding.
Fireworks were exploding above us.
