However, the distant blast had no immediate bearing on the situation at hand.

The distant blast from the quarry had been the only new sound that had reached The Shadow.

As if to corroborate his statement, a distant blast rumbled through the sky.

After the war, he proposed a surveillance system to the Air Force, which seized on it as a possible way to monitor distant nuclear blasts.

It was a distant blast - the boom of an underground explosion.

Part of the Sosus network is being used to develop a global system to eavesdrop on the seas for distant nuclear blasts.

The room was essentially a large safe-deposit box, safe from fire, tornado, or distant nuclear blast.

They heard the first rumble of thunder soon after, a tremendous, though distant blast that shook the ground under their feet.

He reported hearing distant blasts echoing under the ice shelf: multiple explosions.

A distant blast that rolled over the fields like an explosion.