explosion

Example Sentences

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BOISE, Idaho—Each afternoon at around 4:30, the earth here shakes from a series of controlled explosions, as engineers blast through basalt bedrock to flatten out the ground underneath a gigantic new semiconductor factory.

From The Wall Street Journal

The result was a decline in moviegoing and an explosion of interest in an exciting new technology: television.

From The Wall Street Journal

It became apparent upon inspecting the ship that oil had moved internally into tanks not designed to hold it, presenting "a huge safety issue" and "risk of explosion".

From BBC

Astronomers have directly observed a massive dying star skip a supernova explosion and instead collapse into a black hole.

From Science Daily

"They realised I was alone, and that I might do something stupid. For them, too, it was like an explosion."

From BBC