Exploding

Examples

• Modern science uses the force of such exploding gases for the accomplishment of work, such as running of automobiles and launches. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Other shells have been invented carrying a high explosive and capable of penetrating armour plates of great thickness, and exploding after such penetration has taken place. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As a rule, however, non-exploding projectiles are used at night. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But his first experiments at exploding the gunpowder at a definite moment failed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The result was his perfection of a lamp that would furnish the miners with sufficient light and yet preclude risk of exploding fire-damp. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Davy’s safety-lamp proved exactly what was needed to act as protection from exploding fire-damp. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For this reason gasoline is extensively used, and in the average automobile the source of power is the force generated by exploding gases. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The time fuses all contain a percussion element to insure their exploding on impact if not previously exploded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Here thou wilt lie while we prepare the exploding and fire on anything that comes from above or below. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Among many activities he invented the safety-lamp, the object of which was to protect miners from the perils of exploding fire-damp. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But there are other ways to do the exploding. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Was it part of thy mechanism for the exploding? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The war did not come when moral fervor had risen to the exploding point; the moral fervor came rather when the economic interests of the South collided with those of the North. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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