nitroglycerin

Example Sentences

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And assembling a courtroom mosaic to portray a capital defendant is like handling nitroglycerin.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

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 • Dec. 15, 2021

Men too broke to escape a sweaty Latin American village leap at the chance to earn $2,000 apiece driving an emergency shipment of nitroglycerin 300 miles to extinguish an oil inferno for an American company.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2019

The explosion of nitroglycerin is a chemical change because the gases produced are very different kinds of matter from the original substance.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The following day, Friday, June 26, Haupt and Wernecke went to the drugstore to buy nitroglycerin pills.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple