explode

Example Sentences

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“The entire room exploded in applause because we were so delighted they came back.”

From Los Angeles Times

If you think Fred can move fast for coconut, you should see how fast he can run away from an exploding volcano!

From Literature

I always saw that exploding and coming to light.

From Los Angeles Times

“As we started to transfer from training to inference, the amount of data required just exploded, and we just didn’t have enough clean-room capacity to satisfy demand. We realized we had a huge problem.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Wins have dried up in recent years, and he started this season's tour with a missed cut at the Sony Open in Hawaii, before exploding back into form at Pebble Beach.

From Barron's