detonator
Example Sentences
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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
What if these novae were actually the remnants of technological civilizations like ours, which had in fact discovered the dreaded "detonator" referenced by Rutherford?
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
But the wire ended nearby in the grass, unconnected to any detonator.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
You’d think he was pointing a detonator at Aquaman.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2019
There was a noise, I suppose, which must’ve been the detonator, so I glanced behind me and watched Lemon step from the shade into bright sunlight.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
