Example sentences for: explosive

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

  • Critics call this depressing coke-fueled vision of '80s Hollywood lowlifes more an actors' showcase than a drama: It's "a tedious circus of apoplectic speeches and explosive thespian snit fits" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey both give keen performances as strung-out movie-biz sharks, but most of the film is just talk (it was adapted from David Rabe's play), with a few bits of sex and violence the only action.

  • Only in Switzerland did I find someone who truly tried to get it right, but the effort involved putting his tongue out at me and concluded with an overly explosive final consonant; but he got all the bits in there.

  • Jesse Ventura's Original Sin On Meet the Press , Tim Russert asks Gov. Jesse Ventura, I-Minn., about his explosive interview in the November Playboy , in which he calls organized religion "a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers":

  • Another note of authenticity: The explosive sound effects come from the show's old episodes.

  • As Ottoman forces made their way toward this last refuge, the Abbot ordered that a shot be fired into the explosive.


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