Company offices were in Portland, Maine to avoid business disruption by the periodic explosions at the manufacturing facilities.

Even without its periodic explosions "Armageddon" is desperately frenetic, and it would have been more enveloping without such furious overediting or strident cues.

Those moving interstellar clouds and rings near the center of the Galaxy--aren't they due to periodic explosions around here?

If the damper is not closed, the choofa may choke itself with its own smoke, causing periodic "explosions" of unburnt gases in the chimney.

The gunfire was unceasing, and periodic explosions shook the entire street.

Television images showed an extensive fire burning in the night, punctuated by periodic explosions.

Dora had been mostly quiet over the past two months, aside from periodic explosions that killed small numbers of people.

Such periodic explosions of directorial imagination are compensation for the performances, most of which are indifferently rendered.

The heartache makes for a tone of autumnal wistfulness and the greed is behind the periodic explosions of raucousness.

There was a love story, which Niall found even more absorbing than the periodic explosions.