"explosive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The late-19th-century introduction of the explosive harpoon, though, allowed whalers to accelerate their take.
- A close-up showed that a shoot had sprung open like an explosive harpoon when the animal bit down on it.
- Maybe he was floundering down there like a wounded whale, surrounded by a ring of explosive harpoons.
- "It was one of those explosive harpoons, all right," he said.
- She had been given a harpoon gun and four explosive harpoons.
- A certain type of explosive harpoon fired from a shoulder gun, first used by American whalemen in the mid-19th century, was called a "bomb lance."
- He searched a vast area of choppy, gray water, an explosive harpoon never far from his hand.
- By 'the bomb' I knew he meant the explosive harpoon set in the head of the great drill.
- An explosive harpoon is being developed, not only to damage less meat, but to kill whales quickly and humanely.
- In the late 19th century, steam propulsion and the explosive harpoon opened up new whaling opportunities.
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