kablooey

Example Sentences

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At the height of battle, some piece of advanced technology goes kablooey and a grizzled veteran reverts to boots-on-the-ground basics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Other lines are more commonplace, like announcing “That’s the plan,” just before the plan goes kablooey.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2021

What plays best of all, of course, is a spaceship going kablooey all over the screen.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2016

If your job goes kablooey, of course you have to tell your wife all.

From Slate • May 23, 2013

When Trash Talk, from Sacramento, Calif., starts a song at a show, it sounds like a jar opening and releasing the vacuum seal: the snap, the coordination, makes audiences go kablooey.

From New York Times • May 28, 2010