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Pleasure shoots magically in every direction like an explosion of sparks.

At least two people were injured in the explosion but no fatalities have been reported.

But since that explosion of popularity, Angry Birds has become about everything else.

Even a relatively small 250-pound bomb could kill or injure friendly troops who are within 650 feet of the explosion.

Now is hardly the time to be doing anything on the so-called peace process other than trying to avoid an explosion on the ground.

Every light in the hall was ablaze; every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking the chimney or threatening explosion.

And when Lessard flung out that last unthinkable accusation, the explosion came.

Ribsy snapped at it, and swallowed it, and the next instant disappeared with a tremendous explosion in a great cloud of smoke.

An explosion took place in the Blackheath coal mines, Virginia; by which of the twenty-three workmen only one escaped death.

The Turks fired a mine under Quinn's Post and then rushed a section of the defence isolated by the explosion.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to explosion, such as: blast, burst, detonation, firing, outbreak, and outburst.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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