How to Use detonate in a Sentence

detonate

verb

• The first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945.
• Lamb kebab is soft bites of ground meat that detonate with jalapeño.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• What’s a fore-end and how does a firing pin detonate a cartridge?
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2020
• Haasze also claimed to detonate three bombs since Sunday.
  — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2020
• Two days later, a shell landed in his trench and detonated, tearing off his leg.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
• Firefighters on patrol found the device in a tool box, and a sheriff’s office bomb squad was sent to detonate it.
  — Michael Williams, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• Before Hughie can find out what became of Lenny, explosions detonate in the house.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• Most would probably detonate and disperse in the atmosphere, but a few would actually reach the ground.
  — David Jewitt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• Unlike humans, Magawa is too light to detonate a mine, so there is minimal risk of injury.
  — Anna Schaverien, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2020
• The eight-part series tells the stories of five people whose worlds collide when a bomb is detonated at a peaceful Māori protest against a license to mine a sacred site.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
• This leads the bomber to ensnare Reeves’ character in another scheme that involves a bomb placed on a city bus that will detonate if the vehicle‘s speed drops below 50 mph.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
• The warhead is designed to slam into a warship at blisteringly fast speed, then detonate a high explosive or even nuclear warhead deep in the bowels of the ship.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2020
• As an aside, nuclear weaponry is set to detonate several hundred feet above ground level, and therefore doesn’t exert enough force directly on the soil to create a crater.
  — Rachel Lance, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
• First responders in north-central Florida discovered an explosive pumpkin behind a local business, and the bomb squad came out to detonate the gourd.
  — Garfield Hylton, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• One method of attack is to detonate on contact with the side of the hull.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2022
• That allowed the hammer to fall and the firing pin to detonate the primer.
  — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2022
• Once on board, the plotters would combine the two and detonate a bomb.
  — CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
• One of them was found with a cellphone that may have been meant to detonate it.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 23 Feb. 2021
• The bombs will detonate in several hours, guess which ones have the bombs.
  — Brian Flood, Fox News, 13 June 2023
• One of the busiest bridges over that gulf has been detonated and may take time to rebuild.
  — Paul J. Hastings, STAT, 22 Mar. 2023
• In these songs, noise is a means to detonate all conceptions of self.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2020
• But mines were still in the bushes, waiting to detonate.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2022
• The drillers are assigned to drill on the surface of the asteroid and detonate a bomb within it.
  — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2022
• Serber used the angle of the window frame on the wall to calculate the height at which the bomb detonated.
  — Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
• Natasha was the one who made the call to detonate the bombs, knowing full well that Dreykov's innocent daughter would die in the blast too.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 12 July 2021
• The bombs fell wide and failed to detonate, and Ms. Dugdale and Mr. Gallagher went into hiding to plot their next move.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• In this case, the explosives failed to detonate, and there were no reports of injuries.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2023
• The core then failed to detonate in a Type Ia supernova.
  — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• In 1997, a surprise predawn raid in Park Slope, Brooklyn, revealed a ready-to-detonate pipe bomb.
  — Emily R. Daniel New York Daily News (tns), Star Tribune, 8 Nov. 2020
• It was detonated after Bolles returned to his car and backed out of the parking lot.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024