nitroglycerin

Example Sentences

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As if those choices were comparably distasteful when, in fact, one is vanilla and the other is nitroglycerin.

From Los Angeles Times

Doctors had been prescribing nitroglycerin for angina and other heart ailments for over a century — including, coincidentally, to Alfred Nobel, who founded the Nobel Prizes.

From New York Times

Before his examination, Haupt went outside and swallowed three nitroglycerin pills to make his heart beat rapidly.

From Literature

“Being in love was like being on a seesaw where one side contained nitroglycerin,” he writes.

From New York Times

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

From Washington Post