Use "detonation" in a sentence

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

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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

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3. They were wary of a detonation

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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42. This was followed by prompt detonation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

51. The walls and the ceiling, already remote, pulled outwards and each step of his thin-soled loafers became an artillery detonation that reverberated through the now infinite hollowness

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52. The location of the detonation – on the side of the Washington Monument facing toward the Mall – was carefully chosen

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53. Nonetheless, in the depth of his stomach he felt the thud-thud-thud of the timer counting down to detonation

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54. I shall never forget the muffled, mysterious detonation, the sudden agitation of the sea round the slowly raised stern, and to this day I have in my eye the propeller, seen perfectly still in its frame against a clear evening sky

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55. Any reckless gunfire might trigger the detonation mechanism

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56. The entire audience waited, anticipating an additional detonation, there being

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57. But the detonation creates some tectonic shift in the building’s rubble, and there is a snap followed by multiple cascades in the darkness

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58. Puller had almost reached the first landing when the detonation occurred

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59. That’ll just accelerate the detonation

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60. Of the six hundred infantrymen and seventy artillerists manning that stretch of works at the moment of detonation, seventeen survived; the others were either killed instantly, mortally wounded, or buried alive to die a slower and more terrifying death

61. Louder than any crack of thunder that I’d ever heard, the detonation rolled away through the orchard, but in the aftermath a solemn tolling continued in my ears, as if I were not atop a two-story building but were inside the bell tower of a cathedral

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62. The networks were reporting the detonation of Fat Man over Nagasaki

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63. Nothing was more prone to trigger that detonation than Dad, which was weird, because he was so rarely around

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64. Then its operator finally activated the drone’s self-destruct sequence, and the detonation caused one of the flaming buildings nearby to collapse

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65. It’s the detonation of a high-explosive shell

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66. The detonation makes one

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67. A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade

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68. At the moment of the attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance

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69. They toppled above him, clapped bands, wiggled cars, bent to wash him all over with their now bright full-river flowing laughter that could not be stopped if the sky fell or the earth rent open, to blend their good mirth with his, to fuse-light and set him off in a detonation which could not stop exploding from ladyfingers to four-inchers to doomsday cannon crackers of delight!

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70. Modern technology serves the terrorist well with ever-more reliable and complex detonation systems and increasingly powerful explosive substances

71. The detonation causes the initial shock-wave

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72. The wave of pressure travelling outwards from the point of detonation will collapse buildings, uproot trees and fill the air with flying debris, well before the heat follows

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73. Close to the point of detonation all inflammable materials will be ignited—even vaporized

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74. If the detonation is sufficiently distant not to produce total destruction, the trench and earth will protect from blast, heat and radiation

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75. There was no flash, no smoke, simply that loaded detonation

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76. Thinking it quicker and attended by less risk than the usual detonation, I decided to drop them in the sea

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77. There was a detonation from the development level

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