Get to know Detonated better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Detonated meaning
simple past and past participle of detonate
Using Detonated
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of detonate
- In the example corpus, detonated often appears in combinations such as: was detonated, detonated the, and detonated.
Context around Detonated
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Detonated
- In this selection, "detonated" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bomber, missile, expert, high, inside and upon stand out and add context to how "detonated" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a firework detonated inside a and an explosive detonated underneath an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "detonated" sits close to words such as academies, ambushed and appease, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with detonated
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The device detonated in Great Yarmouth, England. (7 words)
Chauhan, an explosives expert, detonated the train bomb. (8 words)
It arrived shortly before 6 p.m. and detonated the device about an hour later. (15 words)
These days Hilux build quality is something of a meme: the boys at Top Gear famously sank a 1988 model into the sea, whacked it with a wrecking ball, set it on fire, and even detonated a 23-story apartment building under it. (43 words)
The world’s first atomic bomb, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the northern part of the state, was detonated at what is now the White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. military still tests rockets. (38 words)
Upon the realization that Translucent's internal organs were no less vulnerable than those of any regular human, The Boys placed an explosive device in his rectum that Hughie detonated upon goading from the cocky supe. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to security officials, the suicide attacker was present in the front row during the Zuhr prayers when he detonated the explosives, Geo News reported.
An Electromagnetic Pulse weapon is effectively a nuclear bomb or missile detonated high above the Earth.
An explosive device planted in a motorcycle was detonated with a remote-controlled device, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Chauhan, an explosives expert, detonated the train bomb.
Ecuador’s police and Interior Ministry did not respond to repeated requests for comment about the details of the killing, but Lasso confirmed police safely detonated a grenade left behind by the killers.
If the 1940s weren’t apocalyptic enough, the Soviet Union also detonated its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk in 1949.
It arrived shortly before 6 p.m. and detonated the device about an hour later.
May 12, 2016 - Explosives that detonated in a village in southeastern Turkey killed 16 people, had been intended for use in a suicide bombing in the nearby province of Diyarbakir.
Officers received a report that two men were seriously injured after a firework detonated inside a moving car.
On Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near an entrance to the Interior Ministry, hours before Erdogan was set to address Parliament as it returned from its summer recess.
Some two and a half years after scientists began gathering at Los Alamos, the U.S. Army detonated the first atomic bomb on remote desert plains on July 16, 1945.
The device detonated in Great Yarmouth, England.
These days Hilux build quality is something of a meme: the boys at Top Gear famously sank a 1988 model into the sea, whacked it with a wrecking ball, set it on fire, and even detonated a 23-story apartment building under it.
The soldiers detonated the flare on the beach approximately three hours later, with local residents hearing a loud bang shortly after nightfall.
The suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a police vehicle, targeting a gathering of people participating in a procession.
The world’s first atomic bomb, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the northern part of the state, was detonated at what is now the White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. military still tests rockets.
Upon the realization that Translucent's internal organs were no less vulnerable than those of any regular human, The Boys placed an explosive device in his rectum that Hughie detonated upon goading from the cocky supe.
While leaving the camp, the army said, an explosive detonated underneath an army truck as gunmen opened fire, damaging the vehicle.
After an attack on Bani Suhaila, where Hamas claimed fighters had detonated a bomb on an Israeli army personnel carrier, medics reported that two Palestinians had died.
An unexploded bomb dropped by the United States on Japan detonated unexpectedly on Wednesday after laying dormant for over 75 years.
Common combinations with detonated
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- was detonated 20×
- detonated the 18×
- and detonated 15×
- were detonated 13×
- detonated in 10×
- detonated at 9×
- bomber detonated 8×
- detonated and 8×
- detonated his 6×
- be detonated 6×