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    Use "detonation" in a sentence

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    detonation


    1. "That war, so we need a detonation, we need to destroy that asteroid so there is no single chunk to guide into the planet


    2. Her face was still full of fear and a smile was all he could manage then before her face washed out in the glare from the alien reactor’s detonation


    3. They were wary of a detonation


    4. Whatever dimensional membrane made up the walls of the transit echoed with the detonation, rippling with waves so violent, the walls of that great vein seemed to reverberate against each other before they tore


    5. That would at least explain why it’s been placed where it is, as a thruster fuel line, would not only increase the power of the explosive but would also allow the detonation to spread along the pipe causes much wider damage


    6. Just as Roidon was about to send a detonation thought pattern to the grenade, he noticed there was someone standing before the craft


    7. They discussed a report from the rescue services that a detonation device had been found at Area 7 and that it may have links to Al-Qaeda


    8. Then I run back to the end of the hallway and around the corner and crouch, my back to the doors, as I press the detonation button and shield my ears with my palms


    9. You’re about three and a half miles away from the area of the detonation


    10. Lightning struck behind them, sending a detonation of water and electricity into the air

    11. The explosion was massive – Kim’s motorboat was flung bodily into the air and almost up-ended by the huge wave that was created by the force of the detonation


    12. ‘Possibly, but I suspect, judging from the massive level of blast destruction, that it was a low-level radiation detonation, and people aren’t as fussy as they used to be


    13. As the ship’s crew watched horrified, the debris from the head-on collision between the satellite and what J T estimated to be a rock a thousand meters across and the subsequent detonation of the satellite’s fission reactor cascaded through the comet


    14. ‘The oddest thing is that, although the Chinese have refused to confirm or deny it, US intelligence is certain that the nuclear detonation was not an attack upon Victoria, but a malfunction of one of City Victoria’s own in-house weapons


    15. ‘Musab must realise that the detonation was self inflicted, and yet he chose to let you believe that it was an attack, and that another would be unleashed onto the Delta


    16. “Peter! Set the robots for detonation on proximity!”


    17. After relaying protracted often heated negotiations, the satellites reported a brilliant flash that could only be the detonation of a hyper drive


    18. Seconds later, a bright flash and a loud detonation announced the first shot of the encounter


    19. d) Or supposing that GE (a nuclear bomb maker) had a couple of nukes that are not accounted for in the military arsenal, and that are hidden in different American cities, and that after Iran gets nuclear weapons, New York City is blown off the face of the earth, and “intelligence sources”, hot on the trail, are “sure” that it was Iranian agents who did the deed and became martyrs in the detonation


    20. � When fuel was injected inside and ignited, the pressure from the detonation closed the front flaps and forced the gases to escape through the rear, creating thrust

    21. information regarding explosives, containers, delivery systems and detonation devices that could


    22. now, some ninety strong, we made it to the detonation point in a few minutes of walking


    23. s equipped with long command detonation wire spools, while the quartermaster company will prepare pallets of barbed wires and other defensive stores and tools


    24. The rocket, with its big shaped charge warhead, flew forward with a loud detonation and a cloud of smoke and dust, performing a downward curved trajectory before hitting the side of the tank’s turret and exploding


    25. The senators barely had time to crouch down in the communication trench before a loud detonation made them cover their ears


    26. Nevertheless, in the pump house the charges were placed on the pumps, and the resulting detonation collapsed the floor of the pump house, taking the control machinery with it


    27. She pressed the bomb release trigger as she felt a distant detonation behind their aircraft


    28. A couple of seconds later, after the cloud of droplets had time to expand and mix with ambient air, a lighting charge attached to the braking parachute initiated the detonation of the fuel-air mixture


    29. The effect was like that of a mini atomic bomb, the detonation of the cloud of explosive vapors equating the power of nearly twenty tons of TNT


    30. But Mudabbir had told him detonation must be accomplished a safe distance away

    31. Anthony of Padua, which was certainly within range for adequate detonation


    32. When the detonation occurred, the Americans would not know what hit them


    33. I do not know if it is set on a timer or not, but there is a detonation button on the front seat


    34. The battle quickly looked like a confusing, mortal dance between bears and bees, with the darkness of space illuminated at intervals by the detonation of projectiles, the explosion of ships and even by cataclysmic collisions between ships


    35. “A nuclear weapon detonation inadequately explains the huge amounts of energy released in that


    36. Plutonium 239, which is easier to produce than highly enriched uranium, is better used in implosion devices, where a sub-critical ball of plutonium is compressed from all sides by the simultaneous explosions of carefully shaped high explosive charges, causing a fission reaction and detonation


    37. The three other men snapped their heads around at the detonation of the shot and looked with wide eyes at the King and his escort


    38. The loud detonation made the guards and the prisoners alike stiffen, while the man Ingrid was interrogating shrieked involuntarily with terror and shock as the blast burned and ripped the groin area of his trousers, with the


    39. would lead to the detonation of the bomb in exactly ten minutes


    40. ” “Hoist” apparently refers to being blown away (literally, up) by a premature or careless detonation

    41. However somewhere in the path of paperwork the orders were completely misinterpreted, and the robots were not only programmed to say they have bombs, but they were actually installed with fully functioning nukes, the detonation of which was entirely up to the whim of the robot


    42. This was followed by prompt detonation


    43. b) The initial explosion in the detonation of an atomic bomb is catastrophic for the surrounding


    44. is going on? Building 7 was absolutely a detonation; a plane did not hit it


    45. deputy the detonation device for the bomb on his chest


    46. Jackie signalled to me in sign language that she’d found the detonation switch and had blown it up with her special toothpaste


    47. possibility of an accidental detonation of the device anywhere near the Nellis base, the


    48. The flash of light hadn"t reported the detonation


    49. Shamir said, “That means that even if you died at the moment you commanded the detonation and something caused a delay, the explosion would still transpire later when you are dead


    50. With that amount of weapons and ammunition mixed with extremely powerful and hard-to-come-by military-grade explosives and blasting caps, which work off of a remote detonation activation device, these tribesmen might just be swayed to look the other way when we want to ‘work on the land for deforestation


























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    Synonyms for "detonation"

    detonation blowup explosion burst blast discharge outbreak outburst eruption

    "detonation" definitions

    a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction


    the act of detonating an explosive