verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bomb
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When the vehicle moved off the pin was pulled out and the bomb detonated , said Mr Lowe.
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When the bomb was detonated down at Alamogordo, residents for hundreds of miles around knew something extraordinary had happened.
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Driving back to Armscott Manor, Virginia felt as if a small bomb had been detonated in her life.
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I felt like a walking time bomb , set to detonate in sixty minutes.
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The first four bombs detonated around noon.
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I feel like a bomb about to detonate .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Army experts detonated the bomb safely in a nearby field.
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Nuclear bombs were detonated in tests in the desert.
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The 200 kg bomb was detonated by terrorists using a remote-control device.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ammo dumps were being detonated by incoming mortars and rockets, and all hell was breaking loose.
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At first they were detonated by cables or tripwires.
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In court he was a good enough actor to detonate his one-liners with a casual deadliness.
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Tense soldiers detonated concussion grenades in an effort to disperse the crowds.
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That was their stake and it detonated the kind of politics which are the stuff of socialism in our society.
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The beauty of C4 is that you can apply pressure or heat and it will not detonate .
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The bomb, like yesterday's, was designed to be detonated by a mobile phone.
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They were detonated just before 8: 30 p. m., when most of the neighborhood business was winding down.