How To Use Gelignite In A Sentence

  • The suitcase contained chlorate of potash and paraffin wax, which was mixed with gelignite to form an explosive compound.
  • Gun cotton and gelignite were used – the former to cut steelwork and the latter to destroy the piers supporting the spans. Alan Glass
  • Their work was taken up with boring and blasting rock with gelignite.
  • I've been harbouring an idea for some time which, as far as pubescent boys would be concerned, is entertainment gelignite.
  • Others elicted murmurs of surprise from the audience for correctly spelling anemone, ubiquitous, gelignite, and chipolata. Times, Sunday Times
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  • I don't like dynamite, it sweats gelignite, but I've got shock-resistant packing in my cooler chest. SNOWJOB
  • However, he was finding it much more difficult than he had anticipated - the architects had designed the building to be bomb-proof, and he had already used about 22 lb of gelignite in an attempt to bring it down.
  • Howard gestured towards the files on Tweed's desk as though they were sticks of suspect gelignite. COVER STORY
  • Gelignite is dangerous stuff to handle.
  • Ashraf Khan was trying to breach the walls, leading a suicide squad with gelignite, as I left. KARA KUSH
  • The suitcase contained chlorate of potash and paraffin wax, which was mixed with gelignite to form an explosive compound.
  • But even there I cannot picture an example where a purchasing officer in a mining camp in Western Australia would be asked why he would be buying gelignite, for example.
  • In 1983, nine sticks of gelignite, 25 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, three detonators and an igniter were found in an electrical sub-station inside the boundary fence.
  • Their work was taken up with boring and blasting rock with gelignite.
  • I don't like dynamite, it sweats gelignite, but I've got shock-resistant packing in my cooler chest. SNOWJOB

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