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Example sentences for: explosion

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I was walking up the path one day when a colossal explosion rent Africa asunder and a large part of my house fell down before my eyes.
But, she went on, "the airstrikes could not only provoke Serbian retaliation against NATO forces in Bosnia, but trigger ethnic conflict in Macedonia, which has a large ethnic Albanian majority," and a Balkan explosion would severely weaken NATO.
The resulting explosion badly damaged the structure and many other ancient buildings on the site.
The country's population explosion offers a mixed demographic bag: increased life expectancy (age 63, up from 39 just 50 years ago), a lower fertility rate (from six births per woman, down to 3.1 over that same period.
This tightfistedness set the table for the current boom, leading to low interest rates, job growth, the Wall Street explosion, etc.