How To Use Fulminate In A Sentence
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Not sure if you're being funny or not, but for those playing at home I will simply note that in modern usage "fulminate" usually means "criticize acidly" ...
Imagethief
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He fulminates against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, best known for forcing restaurants and bus stations in the Jim Crow South to integrate, and against Brown v. Board of Education.
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Let the rejectionists fulminate and sputter until they wear their vocal cords out.
Mjh's blog — 2009 — October
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The mercury fulminate detonates and that causes the loud bang you heard.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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In default of fulminate, he could easily obtain a substance similar to guncotton, since he had azotic acid at his disposal.
The Mysterious Island
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The only known similarly-named chemical was mercuric cyanate or mercuric fulminate.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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fulminated" into a blue flame directly in front of Mrs. Peterkin!
The Peterkin Papers
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So many things to get a bunyip upset, so little time to fulminate about them.
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This year I was too busy to fulminate about it, too busy to remonstrate or dismiss or despair, and now the opportunity is gone forever.
What I've missed
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But in his snappy new opuscule Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits (Simon & Schuster), Denby fulminates against the epidemic of verbal hazing.
Steven G. Kellman: The Snark Ascending
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The marinated squid salad, which Gill munched while I fulminated over my pesto, was big enough to feed a whole table, while the chilli oil was a subtle and sweet accompaniment.
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Instead of saying, "I can't take it any more!" you can fulminate in Portuguese: "Eu nao aguento mais!
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He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare
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And that is why he uses every opportunity to fulminate against the feuilleton press, which he accuses of intimidating younger colleagues and nipping their political engagement in the bud.
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She fulminated against this opinion for decades.
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A blasting cap, containing fulminate of mercury, could be set off by a spark or by a jolt, causing the dynamite sticks to explode.
PAINT THE WIND
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the disease fulminated
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He foamed and fulminated, raging against Temby and his excesses.
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A blasting cap, containing fulminate of mercury, could be set off by a spark or by a jolt, causing the dynamite sticks to explode.
PAINT THE WIND
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This very clever composition uses apparently a simple folk song as a kind of isorhythmic tenor, with a slightly histerical cantus, that fulminates against the traps of marriage.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Of course, the Tea Party began its life with a well-staged rant by an established media figure -- CNBC's Rick Santelli who, in February 2009, fulminated on air and in front of cheering commodities traders that the "losers" who couldn't pay their mortgages shouldn't be bailed out by America's taxpayers.
Jonathan Weiler: The Media and the Five Stages of Grief Over Occupy Wall Street
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Yet in 1969 I heard of a meeting at which a well-respected archaeologist fulminated against the use of colour in a publication on the grounds that ‘black and white was good enough for Rik Wheeler’.
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The essence of the law is altercation; for the law can altercate, fulminate, deprecate, irritate, and go on at any rate.
A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812
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A blasting cap, containing fulminate of mercury, could be set off by a spark or by a jolt, causing the dynamite sticks to explode.
PAINT THE WIND
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Echoing Hayek and Beck, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, House Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Darrell Issa, and the Tea Party can fulminate all they want that government policies to make corporations behave more responsibly -- such as the minimum wage, consumer and environmental protection laws, rules to improve workplace safety, regulations to restrain Wall Street abuses, and health care reform -- are "job killers.
Peter Dreier: How Do Wrong Economic Ideas Become Conventional Wisdom?
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From the columns of The Manchester Guardian Lawrence fulminated against the evils of his time; from the pages of The Skilled Labourer the couple thundered against the evils of the past.
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While the mullah glowered over the camp from the cave mouth or fulminated from the Quran or fought with other mullahs with words for weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and lanced and poulticed and physicked until his head swam with weariness.
In The Time Of Light
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Both press and politicians fulminated against his influence - his nominees were regularly appointed to ministerial posts.
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A blasting cap, containing fulminate of mercury, could be set off by a spark or by a jolt, causing the dynamite sticks to explode.
PAINT THE WIND
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The mercury fulminate detonates and that causes the loud bang you heard.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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Moist fulminates slowly decompose on contact with the oxidisable metals.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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A blasting cap, containing fulminate of mercury, could be set off by a spark or by a jolt, causing the dynamite sticks to explode.
PAINT THE WIND
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They all fulminated against the new curriculum.
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Sir Max had fulminated against the government's call to silence in a leader-page article in the Daily Mail.
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From the columns of The Manchester Guardian Lawrence fulminated against the evils of his time; from the pages of The Skilled Labourer the couple thundered against the evils of the past.
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So the Senate rule that liberals fulminated against for decades has become sacrosanct.
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The mercury fulminate detonates and that causes the loud bang you heard.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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The churches and newspapers fulminated against the crime wave.
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The mercury fulminate detonates and that causes the loud bang you heard.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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In a debate with Hitchens a few years ago, the journalist Chris Hedges made the point that Hitchens fulminated against the irrational without admitting the existence of the non-rational.
Roger Housden: Hitchens: Arch-Fundamentalist?
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Inevitably, some critics fulminated that boarding schools were turning our girls unfit to be wives and mothers.
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All attempts to prepare fulminic acid, or nitro-aceto - nitrile, C (NO_ {2}) H_ {2} CN, from the fulminates have failed.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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While some on the Left fulminated against the eventual deal, it was nothing compared to what some of the Tea Partiers were saying about it.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- More Tea, Anyone?
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The pope and the sacred college had never been dazzled by his specious professions; they were justly offended by the insolence of his conduct; a cardinal legate was sent to Italy, and after some fruitless treaty, and two personal interviews, he fulminated a bull of excommunication, in which the tribune is degraded from his office, and branded with the guilt of rebellion, sacrilege, and heresy.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Vatican apologists and strict adherents will fulminate on and on about the first priest, Peter, receiving the keys to the church and such, but even if those who ignore the several weak links and breaks in the chain of apostolic succession generally concede that Peter himself was a bit of a hot-head, the great mistake-maker of the apostles.
Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience
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Mercury fulminate crystals are orthorhombic and the crystal consists, as expected, of separate Hg (CNO) 2 molecules.
Explosive Crystal | Impact Lab
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But resisting his blandishments, the German foreign minister began to fulminate for the cameras.
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It is thus obvious that picric acid is much less explosive than the nitric ethers, such as nitro-glycerol and nitro-cellulose, and very considerably less explosive than the nitrogen compounds and fulminates.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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As environment minister, Michael Meacher fulminated that ‘housing is not, and should not be a status symbol, an object of conspicuous consumption or a source of market power and wealth.’
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The monks opposed Abelard and convinced the Church to condemn him - twice - and the papacy periodically fulminated against the rationalist discourse carried out in [his university] classrooms.
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At least the anointed will be able to indulge in conspicuous displays of moral vanity as they fulminate publicly.
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Mercury fulminate is very sensitive to shock, friction, and sparks.
Explosive Crystal | Impact Lab
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While the mullah glowered over the camp from the cave mouth or fulminated from the Quran or fought with other mullahs with words for weapons and abuse for argument, he bandaged and lanced and poulticed and physicked until his head swam with weariness.
In The Time Of Light
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They will pitch a hissy fit for years, and then quietly accept and mainstream the very ideas against which they used to fulminate.
Think Progress » Cheney endorses effort to repeal DADT: ‘It strikes me that it’s time to reconsider the policy.’
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For three days he fulminated against Howard in parliament, at the National Press Club and in a nationally broadcast television address.
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The mercury fulminate detonates and that causes the loud bang you heard.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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Agamemnon, jumping upon the piazza at the same moment, trod upon the paper parcel, which exploded at once with the shock, and he fell to the ground, while at the same moment the paste "fulminated" into a blue flame directly in front of
The Peterkin Papers
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No one I met fulminated about loss of economic sovereignty or that S&P, whose purblind approval of junk mortgage debt as triple A was one of the causes of the financial crisis, had finally over-reached itself.
The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton
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This year I was too busy to fulminate about it, too busy to remonstrate or dismiss or despair, and now the opportunity is gone forever.
What I've missed
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A blasting cap, containing fulminate of mercury, could be set off by a spark or by a jolt, causing the dynamite sticks to explode.
PAINT THE WIND
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He says the tube contains fulminate of mercury, and the word 'fulminate' means to flash like lightning.
Hot Money
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In default of fulminate, he could easily obtain a substance similar to guncotton, since he had azotic acid at his disposal.
The Mysterious Island