Sentence examples for were to explode from inspiring English sources

If it were to explode over a metropolitan area, it would spread havoc.

All bets are off, however, if gilt yields were to explode.

If a dirty bomb were to explode in a crowded or confined area, people standing nearby might be killed immediately by the explosion.

If a bomb were to explode some distance from the building, the design, by the Philadelphia firm of KieranTimberlake, includes blast-resistant windows.

If it were to explode it would do negligible harm to the actual police station but would be more harmful for other buildings nearby".

A comparatively small disrupter charge will destroy the suspected vehicle, but its effects on the surrounding area will be far less than if a car bomb were to explode.

The plan may have been to explode them en route, perhaps as the plane was landing.

"The aim of the terrorists was to explode the gas compound," he said.

It is to explode after a short flight, without intercepting an incoming missile.

Some of this anger was to explode in the crisis of the 1990s.

The first thing any information strategy should do is to explode these attitudes, somehow.