blast
Example Sentences
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The blasts were heard in central Tehran as air defence systems were activated, the journalist said.
From Barron's
The government stepped in to prevent the closure of the last two remaining blast furnaces in the UK in April 2025, preventing job losses and serious impact on industry, the report said.
From BBC
Virtually everyone with a smartphone has installed an app run by the military’s Home Front Command, which overrides silent mode to blast out early warnings.
Wearing white cowboy hats and sunburns, they were there to scout sites for future artwork, which they would go on to build, blast out and assemble on an epic scale over the next decade.
AFP journalists heard blasts in Bahrain's capital Manama, and saw black smoke belching from a major oil terminal in the United Arab Emirates port city of Fujairah.
From Barron's
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