At each moment he became more certain his lungs would explode before he made it.

Homer considered struggling, decided to conserve his strength, contemplated fainting, wondered if it was true or just an expression that lungs exploded.

The young man's chest cavity blew apart as if from the inside, and heart and lungs exploded with it.

At last she found her voice, and her lungs exploded in a scream that could be heard even above the noise of the London street.

She fought to remember the rest of the spell before her lungs exploded.

There was a freighter down there somewhere, Moore knew; probably so deep his lungs would explode before he could ever reach it.

He didn't know much about the effects of great pressure on the body; maybe his lungs wouldn't explode, but the mental image was convincing.

He knew her lungs exploded and smoldered in pain.

She would sow chaos till the harvest made Demandred's lungs explode.

Moreover, nobody mentioned that if you come up too fast while holding your breath your lungs will explode like balloons with too much air.