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explosion

An explosion is when something explodes. The explosion destroyed the building.

explosion

a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction (= burst) the act of exploding or bursting the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft a golf shot from a bunker that typically moves sand as well as the golf ball a sudden great increase the population explosion the information explosion the noise caused by an explosion the explosion was heard a mile away a sudden outburst an explosion of laughter an explosion of rage (= plosion) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant

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Simple sentences

The roof was blown off by the explosion.
The workman died from the explosion.
The possibility that the explosion was caused by carelessness cannot be ruled out.
The explosion came about by accident.
The explosion did a lot of damage to the building.
The explosion may have been caused by a gas leak.
What was the cause of the explosion?
The tube was shattered by the explosion.
Last night an explosion took place at a fireworks factory.
All at once there was an explosion.
These are the people who saw the explosion.
I'm sure his chemistry teacher would have failed him had they survived the tragic explosion.
The whole sky lit up and there was an explosion.
Just as we are talking, there was a loud explosion.
The population explosion is a serious problem.
The explosion shook the whole building.
She came back ten minutes after the explosion.
The explosion frightened the villagers.
The huge explosion killed six people.
It was such a powerful explosion that the roof was blown off.

Movie subtitles

Just as they are about to explore, an explosion throws the unfortunate men violently in all directions.
Did Juve and Fandor found death in the explosion of the villa of lady Beltham?
The devil was cast out of your body with a large explosion.
Helius sent the unmanned trial rocket H.32, filled with magnesium, moonward - the explosion of which, upon impact, was viewed and photographed from the earth!
The explosion is of no concern, Mr Helius - it's nothing but a small accentuation of my offers.
An explosion.
Water lessens the force of an explosion.
The action I take is designed only to hasten the explosion of truth and justice.
Then suddenly came the Dreyfus explosion, and I'm alive again my head bursting with ideas!
His bride just dropped him at the gatehouse after a slight explosion.
It's gotten worse since the explosion.
That explosion in the gas main last month.
There was an explosion on the roof. The top floor went like that. Then the fifth, then the fourth.
They were moving at significantly high speed. But there seems to have been some sort of explosion near 52nd Street.
What an explosion.
What was that explosion?
There was an explosion on the roof.
Mysterious explosion on the roof. - Anybody hurt?
An explosion somewhere.
Sounded like an explosion.
Suppose there was an explosion, your partner broke an arm or a leg.
I'm going to make a very important test of this bomb and I want you two to take a photograph of the result of the explosion.
That's going to make a terrific explosion.
Well, if it's all the same to you, Mr. Hartley, I'd rather hear the explosion.
It was an awful explosion.
Explosion attack?
Like kind of an explosion.
He been like this before? - It's gotten worse since the explosion.
Remember that explosion last week and that fire in the shipyards a month ago?
We'll strike the ship the moment the explosion occurs.
Well, what's happened is a kid's been killed in an explosion.
It was in the area of the explosion.
A man who was sittl'ng thinking on these steps was I'nstantly vaporized by the explosion.
I can see the explosion up here.
What could have caused such an fearsome explosion?
In a matter of minutes, an explosion, such as the world has never known, will destroy my island and all its works forever.

News and current affairs

Now an explosion of new media devices is joining the TV set: DVDs, computers, game boxes, smart phones, and more.
One, once headed by Dr. Khan, is responsible for producing bomb-grade uranium gas that, when converted to metal, provides the crucial fuel for a nuclear explosion.
Imagine, for example, the horrific situation consequences ofarising from an atomic explosion in some American city.
The intervening years have seen an explosion of technological innovation that has carried America's general productivity growth back up to its pre-slowdown levels.
If summer hurricanes push huge quantities of oil onto Florida's beaches and up the Eastern seaboard, the resulting political explosion will make the reaction to the financial crisis seem muted.
But an explosion is coming.
Financial market deregulation in an un-named country sets off a credit boom and an explosion in equity and real estate prices.
England's rulers sought in vain to keep a lid on the greatest explosion of economic energy and financial wealth in human history.
For the first time, as the explosion at Jaingxu school and the response to the attacks of September 11 th proved, China's public can use the internet to both gain information and express views that may influence the government.
Productivity growth will probably be higher than before 1995: the soaring growth rates of recent years are not accidents; the high tech explosion is real.
Even so, the explosion of exports coming out of low-wage regions like China and India is at least a piece of the puzzle.
In May this year during the Kaspiisk city explosion terrorists used arms that were purchased from Russian Army officers.
Why this explosion of concern?
Late last month, while putting the finishing touches on the next edition of our newspaper, Haykakan Zhamanak (The Armenian Times), we heard an explosion outside our office.
Today's explosion of conspiracy theories has been stoked by the same conditions that drove their acceptance in the past: rapid social change and profound economic uncertainty.
His body was found in a hotel toilet in the city of Kaduna with the remains of a parcel bomb after an explosion that no one heard.
Slowing the growth of government spending for Medicare and Social Security is necessary to prevent a long-term explosion of the national debt or dramatic increases in personal tax rates.
There has also been an explosion of free media in Pakistan.
After a massive gas well explosion killed 243 people in southwest China last December, China's State Council and National People's Congress have announced new rules for industrial safety.
None of this is to deny the dark side of the Chinese Internet explosion - namely, widespread censorship and constraints on individual freedom of expression.
Preparing for the meeting in the early morning, the EU team heard that there had been an explosion in Grozny, Chechnya's capital, killing several people.
At our lunchtime discussion, he reported that the explosion had been caused by Chechen terrorists who were running their own arms bazaar.
Islam's part in the deal must include a guarantee of human rights and civil liberties, improvement in women's status, and realistic policies to stem the Islamic world's demographic explosion.
It is in East Asia - where the strategic interests of China, the United States, and their respective partners intersect - that the geopolitical stakes, diplomatic tensions, and potential for a global explosion are highest.
Another explosion in the Ferghana valley could be hard to contain if the pieces of declared and actual policy are not brought together, and if the most important regional leaders aren't brought on board.
The explosion of computing capacity will soon introduce opportunities now out of reach of anyone's imagination today.

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