Keyword
explosion
Info
FrequencyTop 700-800
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 4
Heisig1942
Readings
ばく
(97%)
(2%)
Composed of
fire
outburst
Mnemonic

A sudden outburst of fire... yes, an explosion!

Used in vocabulary (159 in total)
explosion; detonation; eruption; eruption (of discontent, etc.); outburst; outpouring
bomb; alcohol with liquor added (esp. wine-based shōchū highball, also beer with whiskey)
sound of an explosion
Examples (94 in total)
The explosion came about by accident.
My head is about to explode from too much study!
He exploded with anger.
What was the cause of the explosion?
We heard the explosion and saw the house burst into flames.
All at once there was an explosion.
The explosion that followed killed many people.
The explosion shook the whole building.
A bunch of people died in the explosion.
The roof was blown off by the explosion.
The aim of this game is to explode all the bombs on the screen.
This bomb can kill many people.
Is it a bomb?
Many cities were destroyed by bombs.
A big bomb fell, and a great many people lost their lives.
The enemy dropped many bombs on the factory.
The enemy dropped bombs on the factory.
When the bomb exploded, I happened to be there.
It was at that very moment that the bomb went off.
We heard the bomb go off.
There's a bomb in the box!
Last night an explosion took place at a fireworks factory.
The news caused him to explode with anger.
We're going to detonate the bomb in a few moments.
He was startled by the explosion.
We were startled by the explosion.
She came back ten minutes after the explosion.
The explosion reduced the facilities to ruins.
Experts have failed to come up with an explanation of why the explosion happened.
When she lit the gas, there was a loud explosion.
The explosion was so powerful that the roof was blown away.
The enemy blew up the bridge.
The plane exploded and plunged into the ocean, killing all the people on board.
They blew up the bridge with gunpowder.
The workman died from the explosion.
Some satellites have exploded or collided.
The shocks of several explosions were felt for miles.
I heard several explosions in the distance.
I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
The explosion killed several passers-by.
The engineers blew up the bridge because it was about to collapse.
There has been an explosive increase in the demand for labor.
London was bombed several times.
Our town was bombed twice this week.
The capital was bombed again and again.
The Internet has exploded.
Police immediately sealed off the streets around the hotel as they searched for the bomb.
Tom exploded in anger.
When the bomb was dropped, I felt the house rock back and forth.
The whole class burst into laughter at the teacher's joke.
His joke made all the class burst into laughter.
Just as we are talking, there was a loud explosion.
The city was bombed by enemy planes.
The whole audience erupted in laughter.
The audience exploded with laughter.
That fighter plane dropped a bomb.
The plane dropped bombs on the city.
This kind of bomb is a serious menace to mankind.
The possibility that the explosion was caused by carelessness cannot be ruled out.
The explosion took place because of his carelessness.
"Did you sleep well?" "I slept like a log."
Tom is sleeping like a log.
Both Tom and Mary are fast asleep.
He drove over a land mine and his jeep blew up.
We blew up a huge rock with dynamite.
At that instant it exploded with a great noise.
It exploded with a loud noise.
Steam boilers may explode.
The grenade exploded five metres from the soldiers.
The explosion did a lot of damage to the building.
The time bomb exploded with a loud noise.
The whole world could be destroyed by an atomic war.
The atomic bomb is a grave threat to mankind.
The atomic bomb destroyed the entire city of Hiroshima.
The plane was blown up by hijackers.
I have to let off some steam before I explode with anger.
Challenger exploded on January 28th 1986.
Atomic bombs are a danger to the human race.
They know how to make an atomic bomb.
They dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.
We should never use an atomic bomb again.
Science produced the atomic bomb.
An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
It was such a nice joke that everybody burst out laughing.
The atomic bomb is the offspring of 20th century physics.
Powders of aluminium, magnesium, silicon, etc. explode.
The tube was shattered by the explosion.
The explosion of the space shuttle is still fresh in my memory.
All of a sudden, the barn went up in flames.
The explosion may have been caused by a gas leak.
Once the chemical plant caught fire, it exploded.
The population explosion is a serious problem.
The treaty bans the use of atomic and hydrogen bombs.