Emily heard something explode from a trunk a few yards away, at almost the same time as the report reached her ears.

He was just going over the edge when a rock ten yards away exploded ill white fire.

Just two days before, a car bomb exploded less than a mile away, killing nine people.

It rose slowly until the downdraft no longer exploded the water away to either side.

As she spoke, a tear gas canister exploded about 10 feet away.

Surf was exploding against cliffs a mere fifty feet away.

At one she rides away on the motorcycle as the house explodes.

Then suddenly, a rock a few meters away exploded.

"I hoped it would explode and go away," he said.

We broke out laughing, all the tension exploding away in an instant.