Black smoke poured from the upper two stories, flames shot out through imploded windows on the third floor.

A few helped push the cooked flakes away from the imploded dome, but most held back.

But her own world's imploded government had taught her that the individuals of a society and the power they served were not the same thing.

But even after a decade or more of rescuing imploded countries, the United Nations and its members have never faced anything like this.

The mountain is now all that remains of the imploded inner dome of the volcano.

Pallis remembered the imploded foundry and wondered what horrors this young miner had already seen.

He checked the time; barely five minutes, and the Pelian shuttle would be safely beyond the range of, say, radiation from imploded engines.

"Even if I don't die, what wahine is going to want to date a bald, noseless guy with imploded kidneys? "

Why aren't we floating in imploded debris?"

Uvarov tilted his head, and the pod's internal lights cast shadows across his imploded eye-sockets.

They are enormous and resemble small meteorites or chunks of imploded wreckage newly raised from the deep or brought down from outer space.

As he had suspected a good fraction of the globe lamps hung in imploded fragments from their cables, dooming the avenue to half-light.

Through the now-ragged hole, Bork saw the imploded ball of compacted material buried to half its depth in the hard surface of the alley floor.

But Bischoff knows many others, better than him, whose bodies are trapped in knuckles of imploded metal on the floor of the North Atlantic.

Where other people see an imploded technology market, a skeptical core audience and persistent future fatigue, Mr. Anderson sees endless scenarios of change and growth.

The rare imploded affricates occur in Kung-Ekoka and Hendo (a Bantu language).

If they found the chimerium iris from the imploded underwater base, they would have evidence linking Tezwa's cannons to a source in the Federation.

No, because the one thing Beijing fears more than a nuclear North Korea is an imploded North Korea.

But since Earth scientists don't believe in hyperluminary (faster than light) phenomena, they can't understand the concept of imploded light, which is at the other end of the spectrum.

A small bluish dot on one nostril that looked like ink, but was some residue of imploded capillary, the result of a magnificent nosebleed when she was twelve.

The imploded sculptures trammel well-known territory - David Smith, Ibram Lassaw, Anthony Caro and John Chamberlain - but with noticeable panache.

Lebanon was a geopolitical running sore, an imploded state that threatened for years to destabilize even prosperous and militarily robust nations like Israel, whose problems would then ripple out to the wider world as well.

The illuminating misperceptions of a child; the possibly illuminating flashes and blackouts of an imploded mind: such swerves off the conventional fictional track can delineate it in ways that a steady narrative may not.

Again, the imploded drums found at early US sea disposal dump sites were not made to the much tighter standards pioneered in the UK and embodied in current national and international codes of practice.

Envision Dagestan's bad neighbor Chechnya, from whence the guerrillas sprang, as the Lebanon of the Caucasus: another imploded state, its government a husk, its real rulers Islamic militias intent on expanding their political and religious influence.

And given enough of them, the system itself will implode.

It was as if the future had imploded around him.

My heart felt as if it were going to implode.

But on the second day, my entire book project imploded.

That place was small enough without the church imploding above it.

"And on other days you say it could all implode."

The same as when his life had begun to implode.

I looked up, trying to photograph the building, and realized it was imploding.

Soon after he left the organization in 1997, it nearly imploded as financial problems came to light.

Make a real big one full of vacuum, you could probably implode a building.

His chest felt as if it would implode, which he actually wanted to happen.

The show imploded, while still in the top 10 of the ratings.

The original plan was to implode the building in three steps.

He did not get nasty when his team seemed to be imploding in the early fall.

"But their fund family overall has been imploding across the board."

The revolution, such as it is, would implode right then.

All the other windows on both sides of the room had imploded.

At a depth of 415 feet, it had almost imploded.

Then, even as the economy imploded, the chapter stopped growing.

And that was before the housing budget started to implode.

Carter said, "They should implode the thing and start over."

Somebody is going to implode their way to the nomination.

The people supposed to be in charge allowed the system to implode.

The shed imploded on top of another boat 100 feet away.

If she didn't get them out of the sun soon they were going to implode.