dynamite

According to US media, Sullivan issued the jurors a last-resort, so-called "dynamite charge" that encourages them to keep discussing in a bid to break the impasse and avoid a mistrial.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Chair of the judges Mary Beard described the 13 novels as "dynamite", adding: "We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

How many other sculptors have made regular use of dynamite?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

“Our officers responded from North Hollywood, they observed the dynamite, they retreated,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

I slept badly that night, dreaming of bricks crashing through our front window, dynamite exploding, and Mother and Betty Jean and Liz walking through our house with makeup on their faces and diamond tiaras.

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

With gelatine dynamites a firm tamping may be used, but with ordinary dynamite loose sand is better.

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

They are mostly distinguished by special trade names, and are mainly of two classes—those containing ammonium nitrate and nitrobenzene or nitronaphthalene, and those containing nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose, which are essentially weak dynamites.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

Locadio dynamited his team's chances and prepared the ground for Scotland's comeback.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

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

The Germans also dynamited the dam years later as they retreated after repairing the Soviet damage.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 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

In the mid-1990s, he points out, the city of Baltimore embarked on a highly publicized policy of dynamiting the old i96os-style public housing high-rises in East and West Baltimore.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell