The surface of the water heaved and exploded into a vast shiny grey-mottled mound.

The rocky surface exploded into inferno.

Eventually, as in "Chocolat," the surface of this world explodes with the force of repressed passions and cultural conflict.

So now Calhoun ought to be floating in emptiness, his body an unrecognizable object whose outer surface had exploded and whose inner parts were ice.

It appeared to me that the surface of the sphere exploded.

Oceans boiled, their surfaces almost exploding into steam.

Everywhere she looked, every surface of snow was exploding into avalanches.

Sensors showed the base itself to be badly damaged, its power systems failing, its hex cells and surfaces exploded outward from the inside.

The surface of the water exploded into steam as the stone touched it.

The quiet surface of the lake exploded into boiling action as the huge creature broke surface between the two boats.