Example sentences for: explosion

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

  • An explosion of the spacecraft within the Earth's atmosphere would spread toxic particles, endangering millions.

  • You might find yourself looking at an old man or woman, guessing how old they were on 6 August 1945 and trying to imagine what they were doing at 8:15am, the instant of the atomic explosion that reverberated around the world.

  • A car bomb explosion at a crowded Jerusalem marketplace gets top international coverage at the weekend papers.

  • Two months later, the blindness of the king’s conservative advisors and the king’s own weakness and vacillation led to the explosion of centuries of frustration and rage — which culminated in the storming of the Bastille, the regime’s prison-fortress in Paris.

  • Meeks was one of 50 black seamen accused of mutiny in 1944 when they refused to resume loading ammunition onto ships after a deadly explosion at Port Chicago.


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