Something went off with a loud noise

A breakdown in the negotiations will mean war

Today young people find themselves, through no fault of their own, living in a world torn by international bitterness and the threat of nuclear destruction

Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split

In severe cases, cracks can form or it can snap apart

Also cracks may form in buildings that aren't Earthquake proof

He drove over a land mine and his jeep blew up

Fred has very little patience, and it doesn't take much to make him fly off the handle

Strife is the rock on which the party split

The water pipes froze and then burst

The water mains burst due to the earthquake

The water pipe burst