detonate

Example Sentences

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If “One of Us” is an entertaining family saga of privilege and comeuppance, it is also a consummate novel of suspense in which revelations detonate with lethal accuracy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

"We move carefully and extremely slowly so that the mine does not detonate," Vitalii says, describing the painstakingly slow process of demining.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

"There was a fake grenade they'd take with them onto target, it couldn't detonate," said a former SAS operator.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

One of my cousins who lives in Dahiyeh had disconnected the solar-powered lithium batteries that provided electricity to his apartment for fear that they could detonate.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2024

Fortunately for Hanson the bomb failed to detonate.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler