Definition: 1. Easily able or likely to explode. 2. Likely to cause violence or strong feelings of anger or hatred. 3. Increasing suddenly and rapidly.
Use 'explosive' in a sentence:
1. It's an explosive situation.
2. One of the most common refrains about the explosive growth of social media is that it makes many of us" narcissistic through our screens into a bottomless sea of inauthenticity.
3. The explosive growth in casinos is one of the most conspicuous signs of Westernisation.
4. You are not allowed to carry flammable, explosive or other dangerous things into the cable car.
5. According to a member of the team responsible for FOX 1-A, AMSAT's first CubeSat, this means that there s no way to sneak something like explosives or an energy emitter into an amateur satellite when everyone has access to the designs and implementation.
6. I think she's really explosive.
7. Atwater has been arrested on a federal count of attempting to get on an aircraft with an explosive.
8. Explosive Reason and Solving Scheme of 10 kV Electromagnetic Type Voltage Transformer.
9. She was unpredictable, explosive, impulsive and easily distracted.
10. He was extradited to Britain from the Irish Republic to face explosives charges.
11. Article 9 Existing factories and warehouses for production, storage, loading and unloading of inflammable and explosive dangerous goods, shall be established at urban border area or independent safety zone.
12. Sad to say, the moral decline of the younger generations may be a rather explosive situation in our modern society.
13. The explosive device was timed to go off at the rush hour.
14. These are volcanoes so explosive that they burst open in a single big crack.
15. The men were caught in the act of digging up buried explosives.
16. Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".
17. The explosive growth in casinos is one of the most conspicuous signs of Westernization.
18. Article 46 Those who, in violation the rules of this law, produce, store, transport, sell or use, destroy inflammable and explosive dangerous goods, shall be ordered to stop illegal activities, and can be given disciplinary warning, penalty or disciplinary warning or penalty.
19. A snowman is stuffed with explosive.
20. Think of something as seemingly benign as the cellphone—we have microfinance and text-based social networking at one end of the spectrum, and improvised explosive devices at the other.
21. Race proved an even more explosive issue.
22. He appeared to be treating the potentially explosive situation with some sensitivity.
23. The explosive new style helped cut Killy's racing time dramatically.
24. He is a brilliant explosive expert.
25. Explosive materials must be kept far away from fire.
26. He made a loud, explosive noise of disgust.
27. As we know, rapid deforestation combined with the massive burning of fossil fuels is an explosive recipe for an irreversible disaster.
28. Explosive shells torn into the walls of the embassy.
29. It's an explosive eruption.
30. But its true explosive potential is unclear.
31. The old man had an explosive temper.
32. The car had been rigged with about 300 lbs of explosive.
33. The worst-ever defeat of this team proved once again that Stanford can be one of the most explosive offensive teams in the country.
34. These volcanoes are so explosive that they burst open in a single big crack, leaving behind a vast hole, the caldera.
35. Race relations are an explosive issue.
36. Nobody knows what explosive arguments the future of Europe will bring.
37. A cataluminescence(CTL) sensor for quantitative analysis of the explosive gases of propane and iso-butane in a mixture was proposed.
38. The utmost caution must be exercised when handling explosives.
39. Think of something as seemingly benign as the cellphone-we have microfinance and text-based social networking at one end of the spectrum, and improvised explosive devices at the other.
40. This rally could be explosive.
41. Its scientific name is flatus, but the English language has an impressive range of colorful terms to describe the explosive emission of digestive gas.
42. They dealt with their dilemmas by mixing perhaps unintentionally an explosive brew.
43. These are volcanoes so explosive that they burst open in a single big crack, leaving behind a vast hole, the caldera ．
44. This is called a "wet burp", an explosive near-vomit experience guaranteed to gross out anyone who is around you.
45. The explosive mixture in a rocket consists of both a fuel and a supply of oxygen.
46. The strategy was too dangerous in the explosive circumstances of the times.
47. He's inherited his father's explosive temper.
48. The bomb was packed with several pounds of high explosive.
49. New guns firing high explosive shells were incorporated into the battlefield.
50. Explosive impacts heated and liquefied the ice, resulting in the fluid appearance of the ejecta.
51. Highly explosive gas is naturally found in coal mines.
52. For the rest of the day, he worked on the assembly of an explosive device.
53. The police were reported to have blasted their way into the house using explosives.
