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Example sentences for "detonations"

Lexicographically close words:
detonate; detonated; detonates; detonating; detonation; detonator; detonators; detour; detours; detract
  1. When it is dashed to gauzy, irised spray it seems as gentle as the pearly mists of dawn, but its deep thunder-like detonations tell of a mighty power.

  2. As this vast mass of water strikes the rocks below, loud, thunder-like detonations are heard not unlike the reverberating tones of the breakers of the ocean.

  3. While the dreadful detonations continued, sometimes exceedingly close by, the various pilots seized upon such mechanicians as they could.

  4. But no longer were those crashing detonations coming.

  5. The soldiers of the caravan discharged their old guns, the low detonations of which were but little louder than the vociferations of the crowd.

  6. The drums were beaten, horns were blown in the midst of the detonations of fire-arms.

  7. In the Labyrinth the detonations which usually indicated the French fire might be from the German batteries stationed quite near us, but where they could not get the range on us, and firing at a section of the French lines some miles away.

  8. On the 30th, the detonations were very few, and the smoke issued only at intervals, and by the 1st May the eruption was completely over.

  9. One shot amidst that chaos of terrific detonations would be practically inaudible, and even if it were heard there were none sufficiently curious to ascertain the reason.

  10. One stumbles above all on plaster and bricks---- Sinister detonations and cries and groans.

  11. This came through the ever-growing desire to get away from the city which undoubtedly sooner or later would hear the crashing detonations of the monster mortars that had already smashed the steel-domed defenses of Liege and Namur.

  12. Initially, patients from nuclear detonations will be suffering thermal burns or blast injuries.

  13. Protection from the thermal and blast effects of nuclear detonations requires much more elaborate measures.

  14. Nuclear detonations will produce a large number of blast, burn, and projectile injuries that initially must be treated by individual soldiers trained in first aid procedures.

  15. Reporting Nuclear Detonations Biological and Chemical Attacks and Predicting and Warning of Associated Hazards and Hazard Areas.

  16. Stampede blazed away with his forty-five, and Alan felt the thrill of it and emptied the magazine of his gun, the detonations of revolver and rifle drowning the chorus of sound that came from the range.

  17. A moment later his wild shouts were assembling the pack, while the detonations of Alan's pistol continued to roll over the tundra.

  18. I could hear the loud, sharp detonations of grenades, and I fancied cheers, more detonations and cheers and cries.

  19. From the detonations I judged we were bombing their trenches.

  20. Families in English homes feared that the detonations marked the death of those they loved--sons, brothers or husbands.

  21. The loud detonations of their company volleys were heard and the smoke seen all over the field, and on the left we wondered what was happening.

  22. The shock lasted altogether fifteen seconds or more,[25] and was accompanied by a rumbling noise, in the midst of which were detonations as of thunder or of great blows given upon an empty barrel.

  23. I've got a taxi waiting--" His words were drowned out by the thunderous detonations set up by a second shot in that constricted space.

  24. And the detonations were at that time taking place at intervals of ten minutes.

  25. At Singapore--522 miles off--they fancied that the detonations came from a vessel in distress and two steamers were despatched to search for it.

  26. Their shrieks and cries could be heard above even the roaring of the water and the detonations of the volcano.

  27. The three upper craters gave forth loud detonations three or four times a minute.

  28. Loud detonations were heard and two streams of lava issued from the crater.

  29. The volcano was completely hidden in a dense mass of cinder-laden smoke, the only other signs of activity being frequent and very severe detonations and deep rumblings.

  30. The loud detonations under the earth enhanced the horror.

  31. Following the salvos of detonations from the mountain, gigantic mushroom-shaped columns of smoke and cinders ascended into the clear, starlit sky, and then spread in a vast black sheet to the south and directly over my head.

  32. Ashes began to fall in St. Pierre and heavy detonations were heard.

  33. The detonations from the volcano resembled those of terrible explosions and the falling of the hot ashes made life indeed a burden for the Neapolitans.

  34. From sunset on Sunday till midnight the tremendous detonations followed each other so quickly that a continuous roar may be said to have issued from the island.

  35. They were no longer lost in the wood, and their detonations were sounding nearer and nearer.

  36. But the wind had passed on, shrieking and tearing its way into the dim distance until its voice was utterly drowned in the sterner detonations of the battle.

  37. And as he finished speaking two terrific detonations roared up from somewhere directly beneath them.

  38. Ear-splitting detonations echoed from crag to crag, and down deep into the valleys and canyons, setting the world alive with a sudden chaos.

  39. Loud detonations were heard, and two streams of lava issued from the crater.

  40. Surging billows of debris were hurled skyward on gigantic pulsations of blinding light, to the detonations that shook men from their feet in many sections of the American line seven and eight miles away.

  41. But a new barrier of blazing detonations and churned earth appeared on its flanks.

  42. But the fearsome detonations continued, and it was evident that at every discharge fresh clouds of the volcanic dust were formed, and the darkness remained as profound as ever.

  43. The detonations from the volcano far exceed in loudness any other earthly noise.

  44. The detonations of thunder during a great storm could not be compared to the detonations of the artillery in this duel.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detonations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.