As Vellyngaith's fighters turned on their wings and tried to escape, another unified blast bore through the sphere's funnel and obliterated the retreating ships.

The blast obliterated the walls, said Steve Sawyer, a structural engineer hired by International Coal.

Remote sensing indicates traces of machinery within the ruins, but the blast you triggered has conveniently obliterated most of the lower level structure.

When it came, the blast obliterated all images in the Control Center and the air was filled with red smoke.

It would fall directly among them, and the resulting blast would obliterate them.

A deposit of heavy ores was detonated, no doubt by sheer mischance, and the blast obliterated the incautious experimenter.

The resulting blast would obliterate the American infidels - but God would spare him from the flame and shrapnel.

When Zufa's blast obliterated the Titan's mind, it severed all thoughtrode connections to the sophisticated navigation and guidance systems.

Yet no one knows what that death toll is, partly because the blast obliterated records along with lives.

The blast reflected back at Shatterstar and apparently obliterated him.