11.   Ms. Graves let herself explode across the stage.

12.   Now sites that draw on those dreams have exploded across the Web.

13.   Rates of infectious diseases from cholera to syphilis have exploded across Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

14.   Tall, with tousled wet hair, moving as though exhausted but with a grin that explodes across his face.

15.   The ukulele and its Hawaiian sibling the steel guitar exploded across mainland popular music.

16.   Then the roar exploded across the old links like a sonic boom.

17.   Violent crime has exploded across the country.

18.   A bicycle bomb exploded across the street from a police station Friday, killing four officers and a child, and injuring several other people, police said.

19.   Anger has exploded across the chronically water-short Mediterranean island in recent days.

20.   But no peace talks have been held, and the major powers fear without political progress fighting could explode across the province by spring.