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Example sentences for: explode

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

There are rockets that defiantly explode before they leave the pad and rockets that spitefully take fences and vegetation with them.
Rosenthal reinvented the paper during his tenure from 1977 to 1986, stealing from Clay Felker's playbook to explode the Times into a many sectioned national paper.
Does he explode into flame, as in John Carpenter's Vampires ? Turn into a Pompeii-like ash sculpture, as in Interview With the Vampire ? Feel a little short of energy, as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ? Or merely require the use of a good sunblock, as in Blade ?
It takes a while to get oriented in Leigh's movies, which, for all their social-realist trappings, frequently explode into caricature and high-theatrical artifice.
It needed to be designed to explode in a different way, and even then had to be targeted with extreme precision.