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explosive English
Meaning explosive meaning
What does explosive mean?
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Simple sentences
There was an explosive mixture in his head containing feelings of inferiority as well as visions of omnipotence.
Sami stuck plastic explosive on the window.
It's an explosive mixture.
Movie subtitles
Judging by the volume of blood, it was sudden and explosive.
E - Explosive.
Our route was longer because we carried explosive.
An explosive derived from the metal uranium so powerful and devastating that one relatively small bomb gave promise of having the destructive power of 20,000 tons of TNT.
See, I took the heads off two cylinders of oxygen, and filled them with live explosive.
There's nothing explosive in them.
Getting more explosive every day.
First was your firecracker, a harmless explosive.
Weaver.don't do anything too explosive.
Then something happened in Hong Kong. and the telegram became explosive.
On your ankle you all have a rig. packed with 20 ounces of plastic explosive.
In exactly 30 hours from now. that plastic explosive will do what it does best.
It's an explosive.
Each B-52 can deliver a nuclear bomb load of 50 megatons equal to 16 times the total explosive force of all the bombs and shells used by all the armies in World War ll.
The contamination will spread in an explosive fashion from person to person.
It'd be explosive.
My explosive. They've even taken the matter up with the War Department.
Gentlemen, you are looking at what I consider the most powerful explosive in the world today.
What do we want with an explosive?
I thought I engaged you gentlemen to guard this explosive.
I'm pleased to inform you that the War Department is interested in your explosive.
He's gonna take the explosive.
They won't be able to find the explosive, and you can't play that thing.
I'm gonna get the explosive if I have to conk Hartley over the head.
Where's the explosive?
But, gentlemen, what explosive?
I don't know whether you know it, but this is highly explosive.
Thiamine Chloride, a powerful explosive known as vitamin B1!
This is what the explosive looks like.
Those rockets carried enough explosive force to blow up all of New York.
Butane is a very explosive gas.
It's cyclotrimethylene trinitrimide, a powerful new explosive introduced during the last war.
Details at this moment are sketchy, but the bomb was found in the airplane after an unidentified person demanding extortion money telephoned airline officials and told them the explosive was aboard.
Say a high-explosive shell, a three-inch mortar?
Sounds to me like she's got a dangerous cargo, maybe explosive.
It may be an explosive.
Fire the explosive bolts!
The whole situation is highly explosive.
The world's stockpile of thermo-nuclear weapons has doubled within the last five years and now is the equivalent of almost 20 tons of high explosive to every man, woman and child on the planet.
It was simple. I just arranged an explosive using the ships armaments.
News and current affairs
The Caucasus is too small a space for closed borders and explosive conflicts.
A sick man whose rule at home is being challenged by Islamist opponents, he decided that international ostracism and domestic troubles is too explosive a combination for his son, a spoiled playboy, to handle.
Since then, it has powered its explosive economic growth almost exclusively with highly polluting coal, lifting 680 million people out of poverty.
The polarization of borrowing costs has politically explosive distributional effects: Germany is borrowing and refinancing its existing debt at artificially low interest rates.
Asia's middle-class population is expected to experience explosive growth in the coming years, rising from 500 million people in 2010 to 1.75 billion in 2020.
After eight years of explosive growth, there are now almost as many internet users in China as there are members of the 70-million-strong Communist Party.
When Chinese-style capitalism met American-style capitalism, with few safety valves in place, it gave rise to an explosive mix.
And so an explosive situation will remain explosive, North Korea's population will continue to suffer famines and tyranny, and words of war will continue to fly back and forth across the 38th parallel.
Whales cannot be humanely killed - they are too large, and even with an explosive harpoon, it is difficult to hit the whale in the right spot.
Moreover, whalers do not want to use a large amount of explosive, because that would blow the whale to pieces, while the whole point is to recover valuable oil or flesh.
As a result, the explosive potential of caste division also has been channeled through the ballot box, with the lowest of the low attaining high office.
Iran's leaders underestimate the explosive nature of this issue, and how it is answered, for the US as a global power and thus for its own future.
Indeed, there is no shortage of potentially explosive situations.
In fact, the fiscal union proved to be explosive rather than adhesive.
Second, the public's faith in glamorous international cities has increased with the explosive growth in global communications due to the Internet and the cell phone.
All of this development raises a fundamental question: how should we make sense of the explosive productivity growth that has become China's new hallmark?
Inattention to their interests is not just a moral issue, but a potentially explosive social and economic one.
Simply put, bombs dropped from several thousands meters do not kill less indiscriminately than explosive charges placed in train cars.
Meanwhile, the European situation looks explosive.
The financial sector's explosive growth over the past two decades has fueled the accumulation of exceptionally large volumes of debt.
Will the explosive growth of commercial banks' excess reserves cause rapid inflation as the economy recovers?
The struggle between religion and state in the Maghreb is less violent, but potentially explosive nonetheless.
The conflict over austerity has become politically explosive because it is becoming a conflict between Germany and Italy - and, worse, between Germany and France, the tandem that drove European integration for six decades.
The unfolding disaster in the Horn of Africa will not solve itself, and four factors make the situation potentially explosive.
It also makes common cause with South Korea much more difficult, and heightens the risk of maritime territorial disputes becoming explosive.