Dwer was watching in horrified amazement, mixed with stunned pity, when that dark, jadelike eye abruptly exploded.

The small, confined chamber abruptly exploded into a violent, thrashing cauldron of motion and sounds.

The detached blob abruptly exploded.

To Inspector Yamagawa's fright, however, the beeper abruptly explodes.

But digital events tend to be critical-mass phenomena: they build slowly and inconspicuously at first, then abruptly explode.

Something built inside her, funnelling upward like lava in a volcano, then abruptly exploded.

His body exploded abruptly and terrifically in one instant, and on the next instant was relaxed.

Smoke and ash abruptly exploded from the crater, billowing into the sky, swirling downward to encircle the serpents nearest the summit.

I stop when a voice abruptly explodes from within, booming like a wakened god.

Two small bombs then abruptly exploded, 200 yards from the polling place, on either side of the narrow road bisecting the village.