Deflagrate in a sentence as a verb

This story stinks because;-1- When you try to "weld" AN, it deflagrates at best.-2- There where 2 explosions to be heard and seen.

They merely deflagrate extremely quickly, quickly enough to fool an observer but not in the true physical sense.

I think he's trying to argue that because they deflagrate instead of detonating, it's incorrect to call the process an explosion.

I’m not denying that a fire was the likely outcome in either case, but neither gasoline nor batteries detonate, they deflagrate.

Deflagrate definitions

verb

cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity; "care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated"

verb

burn with great heat and intense light; "the powder deflagrated"