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

Read the book to learn what he's thinking and feeling, because all Gorris gives us is a guy grimacing on a couch and a lot of distant explosions to signal his flashbacks.
Badly planned, poorly made, and apt to burst into flames--no, not prime-time TV (although I, for one, would be more likely to watch Ally McBeal if the law firm were more frequently devastated by fatal explosions, or the nightly news if furious grease fires now and then ravaged Peter Jennings' hair).
There were explosions, too, writes Farrow, "when I didn't know the name of a certain kind of pasta; and again when I was off in my estimate of the weather by only four degrees."
This one suggests the business of being funny, and conveys nothing of the surprise and delight at observations that cause explosions of laughter.
Princeton University, to take just one example, witnessed six major riots between 1800 and 1830, including the burning of the library in 1802 and a rash of campus explosions in 1823 that caused half of one class to be expelled.