What is "detonated"

Usage examples of "detonated".

All it took was the slightest graze, at those closing velocities both projectile and target alike detonated into billowing plumes of plasma.

The frigate crew had watched helplessly while the antimatter was detonated, then spent three days in exhausting and often fruitless manoeuvres to rescue survivors of the tragedy.

Silence detonated into the affinity consensus, absorbing the entire planet’s mental voice.

Blinded, crippled, subject to intolerable heat and friction pressures, the kinetic drones detonated in garish starburst splendour twenty kilometres above the Lady Macbeth.

Seven of the Lady Mac’s submunition drones detonated their nuclear explosives in immediate response.

A hundred kilometres behind her, twenty-seven fusion bombs arrayed in an ammonite maculation detonated simultaneously, throwing up a temporary visual and electronic barrier.

If she had detonated when she hit, the blowout of her drive tubes’ escaping plasma would probably have vaporized most of her.

But, Joshua, someone detonated a nuke down there earlier this morning.

At its tip, the plane detonated into an ionized fog which billowed out like a miniature neon cyclone.

Rough tatters of gritty vapour detonated into emerald and turquoise phosphorescence as it twirled past them.

A volley of fusion bombs detonated, creating a further maelstrom of electromagnetic chaos.

A mine had detonated under the leading jeep, punching the front of the chassis into the air.

High explosives detonated in a near constant bombardment, pulverizing the stalled vehicles, and shredding the serjeants riding them.

Windows detonated outward from the appalling pressure, showering the street below with daggers of glass.

Metal and composite detonated into vapour, roaring out from the impact point.