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 • Nov. 9, 2023
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 • Sep. 6, 2023
"I thought you were reaching for your emergency nitroglycerin pill," she jokes with a "ha ha old man" lightness.
From Salon • Dec. 15, 2021
Since then, he has kept nitroglycerin pills in his left pocket for pain relief.
From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020
He carried aspirins and nitroglycerin tablets and who knew what else.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
Vocabulary lists containing nitroglycerin
Civil Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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