How to Use exploded in a Sentence

exploded

adjective

• First one grouse, a puff of exploded feathers, and the dead bird cartwheeled to earth.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
• Tuxedo suits emerged from the exploded bindings of red leather corsetry.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• The point at the center could be the neutron star remnant of the exploded star.
  — Giuseppina Fabbiano, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
• Rivian An exploded view of a drive unit with a pair of motors.
  — Abigail Bassett, Ars Technica, 6 June 2024
• One of his favorite panels shows a corpse with an exploded throat on an autopsy table.
  — Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• An exploded view shows the Orion spacecraft.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Jan. 2026
• Seen through telescopic eyes, the night sky is dotted with the glowing remains of exploded stars.
  — Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
• On Vittoria [Ceretti] there was a jacket with an exploded rose at the hem.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 30 May 2019
• Good luck sleeping after seeing wormy weirdness coming out of an exploded eye!
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2020
• This left Lori standing among the shards of her exploded family, with her best friend having thrown the grenade.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2021
• Your favorite jacket, with a mended tear in its lining and the mark of an exploded pen below its pocket, has some wabi-sabi.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 6 May 2025
• The energy is so massive, that the exploded star can be converted into an ultra-dense neutron star or a black hole.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• The shell from an exploded rifle grenade found in Bago following the military crackdown.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• As an exaggerated example, imagine the ejecta of an exploded star takes on the shape of an egg rather than a baseball.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 31 July 2017
• The twisted remains of the exploded torpedo were recovered and preserved for study.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• Signs of a former life – a pair of women’s shoes, a notebook covered in hearts, shells from exploded ammunition – are untouched.
  — Samya Kullab, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2020
• Enlarge / An exploded version of the new Pocket; even the buttons are aluminum.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 12 July 2024
• The patterns were bright and playful with exploded plaids, colored zebra prints, 80s style florals, and black and white checkered prints.
  — Teen Vogue, 8 Sep. 2019
• A feeling of vital connection saturates the room like the fizz from an exploded bottle of Champagne.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
• Nearly all the injuries treated there are shrapnel wounds from Russian shelling, missiles and exploded mines, the director said.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 21 June 2023
• Tucked neatly inside the box was also a single sheet of general instructions with an exploded illustration of the knife to be built.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• His drug and alcohol abuse led to, among other things, pancreatitis, pneumonia, an exploded colon, and more than a dozen stomach surgeries.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• Police also called in the Sheriff’s bomb squad which examined the exploded device and took it away, according to Lt.
  — Ron Gonzales, Orange County Register, 3 Feb. 2017
• The gates of his home still bear the holes from exploded ammunition that serve as a reminder of when Russian forces tried to seize the Ukrainian capital.
  — Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
• No foul play is suspected in the incident, and Manly says officials are working to determine whether an exploded propane tank caused the blaze.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 11 June 2018
• The breakthrough evidence came from 15 years of documenting radio waves that emanate from the remains of exploded stars, called pulsars.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
• The Voyager version of route-finding pins the sun onto our galaxy using 14 pulsars, which are the rapidly spinning corpses of exploded stars.
  — National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2017
• Like the giant crepe paper flowers in the umbrella stand by the front door, or the library, where an exploded floral print covers the table and giant butterflies adorn the ottoman.
  — Celia Barbour, House Beautiful, 14 Mar. 2018
• Blood and wreckage was distributed over the entire ship, the after cabin and the vicinity of the ship adjacent to the exploded boiler resembling a charnel house.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2019
• But elsewhere in the capital, Anna Dovnya watched soldiers and police remove shrapnel from an exploded shell and was terrified.
  — Jim Heintz, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2022