dynamite

Among their backers was a third Nobel brother, Alfred, already well on his way to immense wealth after patenting dynamite in 1867.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Soldiers cordoned off the area before using dynamite to blast the first ruined building apart -- a 12-story residential tower that had partially collapsed and was slanting toward the street.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Cue the appalling thought of a Haiti equaliser that would dynamite Scotland's hopes of doing what they came here to do - making history by making it out of a group in a World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Denford’s steadily growing “nobody cares” audience regularly tosses sticks of dynamite into that vortex in the name of protecting our sanity.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

But all I could think was, The dynamite is gone.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine

Corinne Bailey Rae dynamites her own musical past and embraces a larger historical one on her new album, “Black Rainbows.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

The girl in the case is also a bandit—except that she wrecks trains of thought and dynamites dams along the canons of true love instead of bothering with the Union Pacific and the Shoshone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hartmann explains it this way: "The seizure just kind of dynamites the depression out of my brain somehow."

From Time Magazine Archive

Kieselguhr dynamites are being largely given up in favour of gelatine explosives.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford

Many dynamites contain other substances than the above, such as paraffin, resin, sulphur, wood, coal-dust, charcoal, also mineral salts, such as carbonate of magnesia, chlorate of potash, &c.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford

The French Revolution then dynamited Europe’s old order and dynamized society as a collective organism, evolving in a “quasi-biological and determinate way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

A place where dead sailors had been buried, the island was dynamited and removed in the early 20th century to widen the harbor and make it more usable for shipping traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

But Benjamin Chim had his fields dynamited and turned into a quarry for materials for the railroad.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023

But on Jan. 8, 1931, the inflammable pile was dynamited, making room for King County Hospital, now Harborview Medical Center.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2023

On May 11, 1906, the wrecking company dynamited the wheel, for scrap.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

In his summation to jurors, prosecutor Joseph Ford essentially blamed Darrow for the dynamiting of The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2024

However, Macron’s 2017 dynamiting of a post-war political landscape dominated by the two mainstream parties on the centre-right and centre-left created a void for populists to fill, analysts say.

From Reuters ● Apr. 6, 2022

Celtic have struggled against teams who sit in and hoover up space while dynamiting those who try to play more freely.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2022

A piece by Sun cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher, which showed a caricature of Schmoke dynamiting the Block only for little Blocks to spring up all over the city, made a big impression.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022

The work was backbreaking: digging out boulders, chopping down trees, dynamiting tunnels, and hammering in railroad ties.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield