detonator

Example Sentences

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An inital attempt to remove the device's detonator failed, French media reports, prompting authorities to destroy the historic munition in situ with a controlled explosion.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

For more common parts, like the plastics and metals and wiring inside each detonator, there are also questions about how the years spent in warheads might affect their integrity.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

But the wire ended nearby in the grass, unconnected to any detonator.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023

There's no need, since their coupledom is simply a detonator for the bombs Hill and Barris designed to go off in their families.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

The President saw it too and the matter did not amuse him, for he realized it could be the detonator that would set off the powder keg on which his government was delicately perched.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende