detonator

Example Sentences

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Test warheads on the missiles were detonated in midair to check their “nuclear explosion control devices and detonators,” state media said.

From New York Times

Among them were Semtex explosives, a horizontal mortar, 25 kilos of homemade explosives, an automatic weapon, a silencer, ammunition, three timer power units, booster tubes and a detonator.

From BBC

For a time, he was charged with “providing material support for terrorism” for allegedly helping to build car-bomb detonators in the Punjab region of Pakistan that were to be shipped to Afghanistan.

From New York Times

The detonator - often used as an emergency warning device to warn maintenance workers of approaching trains - somehow ended up at a store in Morecambe, Lancashire.

From BBC

Mr. Hiraldo-Ramires demonstrated how to install and arm the detonator, using a model of a mine.

From New York Times