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How to use gelignite in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word gelignite? Here are some examples.

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The suitcase contained chlorate of potash and paraffin wax, which was mixed with gelignite to form an explosive compound.
I've been harbouring an idea for some time which, as far as pubescent boys would be concerned, is entertainment gelignite.
In 1983, nine sticks of gelignite, 25 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, three detonators and an igniter were found in an electrical sub-station inside the boundary fence.
But I like to use those kinds of ideas as gelignite to detonate new territories for thought.
The chalk permits the development of gelignite and anorthite minerals, which ensure the mechanical resistance of the materials.
But even there I cannot picture an example where a purchasing officer in a mining camp in Western Australia would be asked why he would be buying gelignite, for example.
We did not see the gelignite, though we were shown a cheap, sky-blue suitcase in which it was said to have been found.
Nontraditional flavors ammonium nitrate, C-4, and gelignite did not test well.
The past 40 years suggests that the issue of Europe is like weeping gelignite – both explosive and unstable and just as likely to blow up in the face of those who wield it as it is to destroy their enemies.
The tunnel was the proving ground of a number of boring machines for the shot holes, using gelignite to blast the rock.
An explosion also damaged Blackpool Town Hall, where explosives were also found in a dustbin and gelignite outside a police station.
Her aunt Bridie Dolan, who lived with the family, had been horribly disfigured at twenty-seven, accidentallyntally dropping a cache of gelignite in an I. R. A. explosives dump.
It was built around 1870 as a steam mill and demolished in 1970 over 4 days taking 256lbs of gelignite.
Six Irish people, including a crew member of the QE2, were arrested when 874 sticks of gelignite were found.
But the man due to plant the gelignite bomb was a police informant.
A remake of the French classic Wages Of Fear, Sorcerer is about a bunch of drifters driving a cargo of unstable gelignite through the South American jungle.
Examples from Classical Literature
A time came when the gun-cotton and gelignite got scarce, and a powder explosive called ammonal had to be used.
The manner of the damage was not quite what one would have expected from gelignite, or some equally powerful preparation.
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