Exploded

Examples

• Have they always exploded? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I poured in a beakerful of water, and the whole thing exploded and threw a lot of it into my eyes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This was accomplished by fastening a charge of gunpowder in such a way that when exploded it would break the partition and mix the solutions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The rabbit exploded in a wild rush round the hutch. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One night, or about two o'clock in the morning, a policeman came in and said that something had exploded at the corner of William and Nassau streets. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• On the 25th of June at three o'clock, all being ready, the mine was exploded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Revault in France showed in 1605 how a bombshell might be exploded by steam. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• When they were hit and the ball exploded, the wound was terrible. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This monosyllable exploded in Brangwen's brain like a shot. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The reason why those little preliminary explosions took place was that a little had spattered out on the edge of the filter paper, and had dried first and exploded. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The mine was constructed and ready to be exploded, and I wanted to take that occasion to carry Petersburg if I could. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This was a shrapnel shell used by the Austrians in the mountains with a nose-cap which went on after the burst and exploded on contact. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• In the Lenair and Hugon system the expansive force of the exploded gas was used directly upon the piston, and through this upon the other moving parts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• What should you say to;' here he violently exploded: 'to a Hand being in it? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The bullet striking the wooden casing of the window exploded, blowing a hole completely through the wood and masonry. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Had the main body exploded there would have been nothing left of the laboratory I was working in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The introduction of the percussion cap, which exploded the charge by a blow, in the place of the old flint lock, was, however, a notable advance. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It worked pretty well; but once the feed roll didn't save it, and the flame went through and exploded the whole roll and kicked up such a bad explosion I abandoned it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But, Mr Wegg,' urged Venus, 'it was your own idea that he should not be exploded upon, till the Mounds were carted away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The revolver exploded harmlessly in the air, and the seaman crumpled up with a scream of pain and terror. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The time fuses all contain a percussion element to insure their exploding on impact if not previously exploded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• For many a bomb has exploded into rhetoric. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For this purpose a dynamite cartridge is exploded at the lower end of the well, which shatters the rock, and, in opening up new channels of flow for the oil, renews the yield. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In some the engines are fed by cartridges which are exploded by pulling a trigger. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He exploded the previously held theories of scientists concerning the spontaneous generation of living things, and clearly established and promulgated the knowledge of disease germs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I exploded one mighty cough, and it was as if Vesuvius had let go. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I do not care to dilate upon the exploded pretensions of Mr. and Mrs. Grundy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He went with his guides across a field and along by the wall of an orchard in which a German shell exploded as he passed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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