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How to use explosive in a sentence

But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."

With an explosive hiss, gray jets of live steam erupted from pipes around the edge of the room.

Anything made of iron and containing high explosive and detonator will be welcome.

The gasoline used also gave off a gas of highly explosive character and one very likely to escape from leaky tanks or joints.

It is often difficult in serious situations to take these explosive monosyllables seriously.

FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNER

The Birmingham factories are feverishly busy making dum-dum and explosive bullets.

She was here, and the place was about to be blasted by some titanic explosive of the Croen science creation!

Then a heavy weight landed on my back, knocking the breath from my lungs with an explosive grunt.

Rick and Scotty watched the placement of the nuclear explosive—a simple steel can, from the outside—in the big hole.

THE FLAMING MOUNTAINHAROLD LELAND GOODWIN

They come from the engine—snorting, explosive sounds, as though it was clamoring for attention.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985