detonator

Example Sentences

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“Hurley gets this flare gun, and he fires the flare gun into the air with a massive detonator as a tribute to the ship,” explains Dr John Shears who led the expedition that found Endurance.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024

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

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

This industrious, experimental director is celebrated, after all, for taking an artistic detonator to sacred classics — by authors like Shakespeare, Molière, Miller and O’Neill — and letting the pieces fly.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2020

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