Example Sentences
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Video footage on social media showed large secondary explosions, suggesting stored ammunition was detonated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
It has been alleged in court that Adams is as "culpable" for the attacks as those who planted and detonated the bombs.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
"They poisoned us," Hinamoeura Cross, a 37-year-old Tahitian parliamentarian who was aged seven when France detonated its last nuclear explosion near her home in French Polynesia in 1996.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
Kennett and his team support the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which suggests that fragments of a comet detonated above Earth's surface.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 1, 2026
On the automobile bridge, Mike Bogo, the three-hundred-pound Poughkeepsie barkeep in charge of setting off explosives to signal the lane number of the winner, detonated five bombs, for Cornell.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
