nitroglycerin
Example Sentences
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“Being in love was like being on a seesaw where one side contained nitroglycerin,” he writes.
From New York Times
And assembling a courtroom mosaic to portray a capital defendant is like handling nitroglycerin.
From Washington Post
And that was before the idiotic failure to call 911 or at least grab the emergency nitroglycerin pill she knew was in the bedside drawer.
From Salon
TSA screening for explosives will sometimes pick this up because of the chemical similarity to nitroglycerin.
From Seattle Times
He tore open two packets of nitroglycerin and poured the contents down my throat.
From Fox News
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
