Use of gunpowder in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include gunpowder at the start of sentence, gunpowder at the end of sentence and gunpowder in the middle of sentence

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gunpowder at the start of sentence


  1. Gunpowder can fail to ignite or explode prematurely.
  2. Gunpowder was introduced into Europe during the first half of the 14th century.
  3. Gunpowder: the smouldering disbelief of McFall during his long and lonely vigil at the belay.
  4. Gunpowder is still made use of in those quarries where a splitting rather than a shattering action is required.

gunpowder at the end of sentence


  1. It is dangerous for children to play with gunpowder.
  2. Not a bad way to go, in a blaze of your own gunpowder.
  3. Unlike the solid cannon ball a mortar shell is hollow and filled with gunpowder.
  4. Benny was holding the cartridges steady while Garry filled them with the gunpowder.
  5. The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder.

gunpowder in the middle of sentence


  1. Damp gunpowder will not fire.
  2. The gunpowder sometimes fails to ignite.
  3. The smell of gunpowder filled his nostrils.
  4. Reputed meeting place of gunpowder Plot conspirators.
  5. The barrel of gunpowder blew up with a terrible noise.
  6. They've got gunpowder enough to keep the whole battery firing for ever.
  7. Some one at Templecombe knew where to get gunpowder, oil and a slow fuse.
  8. The bill says nothing about requiring taggants in gunpowder, only studying them.
  9. Hand Gunners are highly effective warriors armed with primitive gunpowder weapons.
  10. This was to prevent sparks from train wheels and engines reaching the gunpowder stores.
  11. The flames were now strong enough to reach the two bags of gunpowder tied to the man's neck.
  12. The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
  13. Benjamin followed, studying the coiled slow fuses, jars of oil and small barrels of gunpowder piled there.
  14. Those who could walk limped painfully home, in some cases so black with gunpowder they passed unrecognized.
  15. In 1570, the Marquis's son, also conveniently named Alberigo, inaugurated the use of gunpowder in quarrying.
  16. This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining.
  17. Their alchemists were experimenting with gunpowder, their engineers had grasped the basic principles of steam propulsion.
  18. It was either a passage or a long, thin room, a stone-walled storage space lined with gunpowder plot-style wooden barrels.
  19. The family fortune had been established by Evelyn's grandfather, who had acquired the monopoly of making gunpowder under the Tudors.
  20. The gunpowder weapons may have a lower range but their extra penetrative power makes them especially useful against heavily armoured foes.

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