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Explosively

Explosively \Ex*plo"sive*ly\, adv. In an explosive manner.

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explosively

adv. In an explosive manner.

WordNet
explosively
  1. adv. suddenly and rapidly; "the population in Central America is growing explosively"

  2. in an explosive manner; "the political situation in Kashmir and Jammu is explosively unstable"

Usage examples of "explosively".

Although the specifics have been updated in light of current technology, and the strategy is all my personal invention, the essential philosophy behind our operation comes courtesy of my late business associate Auric, who rather explosively departed this veil of tears several years ago.

May 6, 1937, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, when its hydrogen fuel burst explosively into flame, killing thirty-six people.

The mouth of the cave collapsed explosively, partially sealing off the opening.

Two-legged and dangerous, they were a leashed wolf pack, fretful of the delay, and explosively primed for an action they knew must court failure.

She exhaled explosively, with a shudder that rattled her chains, and leaned against the sofa, and gradually her fluttering heart grew calmer.

For it was then that the two nitrogen charges that Schofield had tied to the ends of the retractable portions of the bridge suddenly and explosively went off.

He smiled explosively, changing suddenly from nondescript to swarthily good-looking.

Even transing perfectly and coming out in air would be no assurance that one had not been detected, because when a ship came out of trans it became solid and since two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time the air would be displaced, and displaced explosively.

This mad neck was explosively pocked and mottled, with a flicker of adolescent virulence in the crimson underhang of the ears.

With vitrification, which took place explosively, the facial parts of the skull were crushed.

Samuel Wasserman, who was mysteriously and explosively murdered at the Hotel Wardman in Washington, D.

He huffed explosively as the scaled flaps that blocked his nose opened, expelling old air.

Shiina Machi, housed the studio of Tezuka Osamu and the residences of other promising young manga artists in addition to Ishinomori, including Fujiko Fujio, Akatsuka Fujio, and Mizuno Hideko, all of whom were to become pillars of the explosively expanding manga world in the 1960s.

He cleared his throat explosively, and half a dozen throats among the crowd echoed him in reflex.

Engines and seats and even headlights explosively disassembled in the air, sending metal and glass shrapnel rocketing in every direction.