How to Use exploded in a Sentence

exploded

adjective

• First one grouse, a puff of exploded feathers, and the dead bird cartwheeled to earth.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2017
• The exploded bits linger through a few cycles, and soon the dregs become rock hard.
  — Alicia Chilton, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2022
• Tuxedo suits emerged from the exploded bindings of red leather corsetry.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
• An exploded view of the mouse brain shows its connections.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2015
• On Vittoria [Ceretti] there was a jacket with an exploded rose at the hem.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 30 May 2019
• This left Lori standing among the shards of her exploded family, with her best friend having thrown the grenade.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2021
• The gates of his home still bear the holes from exploded ammunition that serve as a reminder of when Russian forces tried to seize the Ukrainian capital.
  — Hanna Arhirova, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2023
• The patterns were bright and playful with exploded plaids, colored zebra prints, 80s style florals, and black and white checkered prints.
  — Teen Vogue, 8 Sep. 2019
• Having abandoned the exploded car, Joyce and Hopper are at each other’s throats, leaving a clear path for Alexei to escape to...7-Eleven.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
• One of his favorite panels shows a corpse with an exploded throat on an autopsy table.
  — Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• The shell from an exploded rifle grenade found in Bago following the military crackdown.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
• Police also called in the Sheriff’s bomb squad which examined the exploded device and took it away, according to Lt.
  — Ron Gonzales, Orange County Register, 3 Feb. 2017
• The Voyager version of route-finding pins the sun onto our galaxy using 14 pulsars, which are the rapidly spinning corpses of exploded stars.
  — National Geographic, 14 Aug. 2017
• A feeling of vital connection saturates the room like the fizz from an exploded bottle of Champagne.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2017
• This is the same exploded whale carcass that earned national attention in the 1990s, regained fame in the early days of YouTube, and continues to captivate us to this day.
  — oregonlive, 12 Nov. 2020
• As an exaggerated example, imagine the ejecta of an exploded star takes on the shape of an egg rather than a baseball.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 31 July 2017
• Signs of a former life – a pair of women’s shoes, a notebook covered in hearts, shells from exploded ammunition – are untouched.
  — Samya Kullab, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2020
• The twisted remains of the exploded torpedo were recovered and preserved for study.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• Nearly all the injuries treated there are shrapnel wounds from Russian shelling, missiles and exploded mines, the director said.
  — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 21 June 2023
• In the past, paint chips have left craters in the space shuttle and a French satellite was disabled in 1996 after its gravity-gradient boom was severed by a chunk from an exploded rocket.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2018
• Like the giant crepe paper flowers in the umbrella stand by the front door, or the library, where an exploded floral print covers the table and giant butterflies adorn the ottoman.
  — Celia Barbour, House Beautiful, 14 Mar. 2018
• No foul play is suspected in the incident, and Manly says officials are working to determine whether an exploded propane tank caused the blaze.
  — Char Adams, PEOPLE.com, 11 June 2018
• Good luck sleeping after seeing wormy weirdness coming out of an exploded eye!
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2020
• Blood and wreckage was distributed over the entire ship, the after cabin and the vicinity of the ship adjacent to the exploded boiler resembling a charnel house.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2019
• Tucked neatly inside the box was also a single sheet of general instructions with an exploded illustration of the knife to be built.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
• But Mapping Ancient Athens turns the whole city into a kind of exploded museum, with every shop and corner harboring relics from a vanished world.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2023
• An exploded missile near Iryna's house in a residential part of Kyiv, taken on the morning of February 24.
  — Iryna Kyporenko, Time, 25 Feb. 2022
• The breakthrough evidence came from 15 years of documenting radio waves that emanate from the remains of exploded stars, called pulsars.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
• In 1992, astronomers found the first planets outside the solar system — but those orbited an exploded star, making them an unlikely place for life to exist.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2019
• Once a headquarters unit receives word from a minefield the enemy is present, friendly forces can dispatch ground troops, aircraft, or even call in artillery on the precise location of the exploded mine.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 July 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024