dynamite

“Sorcerer” is about a group of fugitives driving a load of dynamite across the jungle; “The Weight” follows a group of Depression-era convicts transferring gold through the forest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Even though the public is starting to pay attention, Caulkins says that the issue has not yet become political dynamite, which means political rhetoric comes with little risk.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

On Wednesday, 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. 3, 2026

In less than four seconds—according to butterflies let loose in my stomach—the Bentley swept past 60 mph, casually acquiring a kinetic energy of nearly one megajoule, roughly equivalent to a stick of dynamite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

A moment later, Noah blasts into the studio like a lit stick of dynamite, then freezes as he scans the room.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

As a young man, by his account, he smuggled diamonds, oversaw coconut plantations, dynamited fish, captained schooners and hunted killer cannibals in the New Guinea jungle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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

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

They achieved this by dynamiting a 28-mile-long canal connecting the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River, which flows toward the Mississippi.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2021

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