How to Use explosion in a Sentence

explosion

noun

• The filmmakers staged the car's explosion.
• The island was rocked by a series of volcanic explosions.
• His comments prompted an explosion of laughter from the crowd.
• The region has experienced a population explosion.
• There were six adults in the house at the time of the explosion.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2023
• At one point an explosion and flames to the side of the road, an IED or mine.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• The gunfire and explosions in The Dark Knight were full of bite and thump.
  — PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024
• The explosion was caused by a tank mine buried in the road, the report said.
  — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• At some point, the explosions and gunfire will stop, and the war in the Gaza Strip will end.
  — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2024
• And the explosion of the Maine was the spark necessary to ignite the fires of war.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
• Lie on the ground, face down, with your feet in the direction of the explosion.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
• And then from there, of course, the whole Latin explosion happens.
  — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Salt Lake has had this huge explosion over the past few years.
  — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
• La’Niyah stood frozen in the living room as the explosion shook the apartment.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• But O’Hern woke up around 7:45 a.m. to the sounds of a loud crash and the bright light of an electrical explosion.
  — oregonlive, 8 Nov. 2022
• The explosion took place in the Black Sea town of Amasra in Bartin province.
  — Maija Ehlinger, CNN, 14 Oct. 2022
• So these quests march on even as the crack of explosions grows louder.
  — Carole V. Bell, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
• That 17-point explosion in the fourth quarter was the on-court highlight.
  — William Guillory, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
• On the first day of the full-scale war, Mr. Shevchenko heard explosions soon after waking up.
  — Lydia Tomkiw, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
• The explosion was caused by a tank mine buried in the road, the television report said.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 6 May 2023
• The force of the explosion had flung his wife, Marwa Hamdan, against a wall and a piece of metal hit her in the head.
  — Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
• The fireworks lit up the sky with bright red, green and orange explosions.
  — Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2024
• Wednesday’s explosion took place only blocks from the site of the 2017 blast.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• Ash from a volcanic explosion in 1883 caused the moon to appear blue for years.
  — Doyle Rice, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Aug. 2024
• Its chief, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, watched an explosion wreck the top two floors of the building.
  — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Since the episode ends just a few seconds after the explosion, we are left with quite the cliffhanger.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 28 Apr. 2023
• The house explosion is the second to have taken place in Evansville in recent years.
  — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• But the timestamp on the video appeared not to match up with the time that the explosion took place, and the tweet was later edited to remove the video.
  — Rob Picheta, CNN, 18 Oct. 2023
• The splash plays set the tone for the defense, as the unit came off an offensive explosion on Wednesday.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2025
• The video showed the dark night sky being lit up by a series of rapid explosions, with smoke rising in the distance.
  — Katie Polglase, CNN Money, 13 June 2025