18 adjectives to describe detonation

Almost simultaneously, as it seemed, there was a corresponding succession of flashes and sharp detonations in the line along the hillside along what appeared to be our trenches.

According to him, with a terrific earthquake, clouds of ashes were driven into the air with violent detonations from a mountain situated at the eastern end of the island.

As I did so, a boot-heel flashed in the air, the Count's arm descended with a terrific detonation, and I saw no more.

For some time there was a continuous rattle of musketry, with rapid detonations of deeper-mouthed cannon,at each roar shaking our suspended hearts,for we knew that our own men were using small arms only.

From farther on in the mountains came the deep, sullen detonations of the "little black giant" that had been rumbling past her in the car.

It was as if the mountain had suddenly bared its fiery heart to the heavens, and a muffled detonation reached my ears.

Except for an occasional far-off detonation and the more or less constant and, so to speak, absent-minded cracking of rifles, a mere keeping awake, apparently, and letting the men in the opposite trenches know you are awake, the afternoon was peaceful.

Then the sky opened, and the noise of the tempestuous forest was drowned in long, rolling detonations of thunder, and the wild lightning flamed down upon us, and set the forest on fire.

I was busy writing, when suddenly I heard a fearful detonation, followed by report on report.

When the wind freshened again it brought at intervals those deep, significant detonations which, as the hours passed, seemed to grow heavier and more thunderous.

Presently a thunderbolt crashes through the crisp air, ringing like steel on steel, sharp and clear, its startling detonation breaking into a spray of echoes against the cliffs and cañon walls.

Owing to her intensely high velocity she arrives overhead without a sound, and then bursts with a perfectly stunning detonation and a shower of small shrapnel bullets.)

and with that the sudden detonation of a pistol fired into the close space of the great cabin.

The cannon were all fired together, and their tremendous detonation made the very earth about the Gulf of Uraba shake.

Thinking and hoping that some of the men might still be alive, he ordered cannon and guns to be fired, that the noise of these formidable detonations echoing amongst the mountains and along the coasts might serve as a signal of his arrival to any of our men who might be hidden among the islanders or among wild beasts.

A couple of months previously they had been at first surprised, then alarmed, by several distinct detonations that appeared to have taken place in the interior of the mountain.

The bombardment had grown sharper and the rumble of guns was uninterrupted, growling like thunder after a summer storm or as the shells passed shrieking and then bursting with jarring detonations.

No sooner had she taken up a mental position before Mrs. Meredith than the parlors resounded with light, rapid detonations of information.

18 adjectives to describe  detonation