Which preposition to use with explode
It was more than dog-flesh could bear; Red bounded back, exploding in snarls.
The gunpowder had exploded with great violence, and casks of oil were burning with an indescribable fury.
Oh, these Jesuits!" "How many children has this shameless priest?" "Father Brachet, him got seventeen boys, andme no savvy how much girltwelve girl ... twenty girl ..." The Boy, who had been splitting with inward laughter, exploded at this juncture.
A shell from the German battleship Lutzow exploded on the bridge of the Marlborough.
I think the hippo went under water when he found the sneeze was coming, for just as pa got to the tank the water flew into the air like a torpedo had exploded under a battle-ship, and the hippo had sneezed all right and pa and the audience which had followed him were drenched and deafened by the explosion.
"Seein' as both parties want to get married," he said hastily, "and as circumstances is what they iskeepin' in mind how circumstances does alter caseswell thenare you ready?" That "Are you ready?" seemed to explode like a pistol shot in Gloria's ears.
Trendon exploded into curses.
This shot was the signal for a broadside, and a shower of balls with three or four shells came screaming through the air striking the walls of the fort, or exploding over it.
"It must be a terrible sensation to any passenger, no matter how brave he may think himself," he went on to say, "when he feels the shock as a torpedo explodes against the hull of the steamer and knows that in a short time she is doomed to be swallowed by the sea.
Bale, Erasmus, Hospinian, Vives, Kemnisius, explode as a vast ocean of obs and sols, school divinity.
One enormous oath exploded from his lips, and he backed sullenly through the door and slammed it after him.
She slept very soundly, said Madame; she had not awakened in her appartement in Paris upon one night when a bomb from a Prussian aeroplane had exploded within two hundred yards of her house.
Charles Lavender, moreover, was well known on the turf; but no bombshell exploding beneath the walls of the ancient cathedral city could more have astonished its inhabitants than the news which, at about five in the afternoon on the day of the inquest, spread like wildfire throughout the town.
It was the first he had ever heard explode near him.
Roaring of cannon, exploding of shellthis had been a source of every-day talk among his comrades.
It is provided with a wooden handle, and the fuse consists of a capsule which is exploded by striking it against some rough object.
The next moment there was a sharp cry from Miss Kybird and a bewildered stare from Nugent as something, only comparable to a human cracker, bounced into the shop and commenced to explode before them.
The screws, like those of most quite modern ships, were driven by the simple contrivance of a constant stream of liquid air, contained in very powerful tanks, exploding through capillary tubes into non-expansion slide-valve chests, much as in the ordinary way with steam: a motor which gave her, in spite of her bluff hulk, a speed of sixteen knots.
Jealousy, which was once a point of honour among them, is exploded to that degree, it is the most infamous and ridiculous of all characters; and you cannot more affront a gentleman than to suppose him capable of it.
The German reply to the enemy's guns issued from the timbered verges of slopes at our right hand and our left; and these German shells, so far as we might judge, passed entirely over and beyond the smashed hamlets and the ruined sugar-beet factory and, curving downward, exploded out of our sight.
Was this, after all, he wondered, what she had exploded about?
Whale-gun throws a bomb that explodes inside the whale and kills him.
The rest of the ridge was unprotected by guns in position, it being at so great a distance from the city and also free from the enemy's attacks; the only danger and annoyance arose from occasional shells, which reached the camp and exploded amongst the tents, from round-shot and from rocket fire.
The shells, which, short fused, had been bursting high above the swamp to the right, suddenly began to fall nearer the cavalry, and after a while a shell exploded among them, killing a horse.
Vaguely he heard comrades shouting for him to come back, heard shells exploding amid the smoke, wheeled his staggering horse, bent swiftly and grasped at an inanimate form in the smoke, missed, dismounted and clutched the senseless carbineerhis comradeand once his valet.