Explodes
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Examples
- Sir Leicester's magnificence explodes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But if the problem is more heavily charged with power, the taboo irritates the force until it explodes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At No. 5 a piece of paper saturated with liquid air burns with great energy, and at No. 6 a piece of sponge or raw cotton similarly saturated explodes when ignited. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He found that fire-damp explodes only at high temperature, and that the flame of this explosive mi xture will not pass through small apertures. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The moment the sunlight, even though diffused, strikes this powder it explodes with a violence which nothing can withstand. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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