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Example sentences for: erupted

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The Port Authority's on-site commanding police officer was standing in the concourse when a fireball erupted out of elevator shafts and exploded onto the mall concourse, causing him to dive for cover.
The Kosovo crisis erupted again.
But lacking the means to enforce its decision, the United Nations was powerless to halt the fighting that erupted as the British withdrew their troops in 1948.
Fuji-san last erupted in 1707, and today only an occasional puff of steam breaks through its crust, the fitful snore of a sleeping giant.
When flames erupted from Jesse Tafero during the execution I witnessed, prison officials blamed the fire on the water-filled sponge attached to his head that was placed there to conduct electricity from the electrode.