Example sentences for: detonated

How can you use “detonated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1927, a 55-year-old school-board official detonated three bombs in the Bath, Mich., schoolhouse, killing 45 people.

  • They piloted the explosives-laden boat alongside the USS Cole, made friendly gestures to crew members, and detonated the bomb.

  • Reflecting suspicions that the bomb was set by the "Real IRA," a breakaway branch of the IRA (the initial telephone warning was made by a caller using one of that group's code words, though official spokesmen denied responsibility Sunday), Ulster Unionist Party leader and Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble told the London Sunday Times that "this bomb would not have been made or detonated if Sinn Fein had handed over its explosives and weapons."

  • on February 26, 1993, a 1,500-pound bomb stashed in a rental van was detonated on a parking garage ramp beneath theTwinTowers.

  • No bombs were detonated.


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