detonator

Example Sentences

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The rocket is lit using an oversized lever designed to look like a “Looney Tunes” version of a TNT detonator.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

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

You’d think he was pointing a detonator at Aquaman.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2019

Publication of photographs, including a device described as a "possible detonator" by the New York Times, prompted a furious response from within Whitehall and from UK police chiefs.

From BBC • May 24, 2017

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