Not a soul moved save Turnbull, who lifted his head; yet there was the sense of a silent explosion.

The withdrawal of that envelope had caused a weird, silent explosion.

The sky beyond the wall lit up with fancy silent explosions of light.

There was a silent explosion, and a great coruscating ball of fire spread for a hundred feet.

She took another photograph, the flash a silent white explosion.

Instead, a double set of silent explosions pulsed from the screen.

There had been a silent explosion in his head.

To either side of him there were silent explosions, and he automatically dropped to the ground, or tried to.

A silent explosion blossomed at the shuttle's 180 - then another, nearly close enough to be a secondary of the first.

For a moment every thought in her mind disappeared into a silent white explosion of revulsion and horror.