Explosion in example sentence

But the Soviet Union’s aging communist leadership, encouraged by the OPEC-generated oil-price explosion and the discovery of massive hydrocarbon reserves in western Siberia, took a different tack, using natural-resource revenues to finance continued military expansion.

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I woke up in the middle of the night with the sound of heavy explosion.

I looked out the windows and I saw a full half-circle of explosion.

I thought it was just like the movies, but the movies had not conveyed them in the powerful image that I was seeing full of bright red and orange and gray, and a full circle of explosion.

It is very scary to go through that feeling of "I am about to die" or "I could die in this explosion."

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