"powder" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Zeera Southworth was tall and slender and very dark, crowned with hair like a black powder explosion.
- He saw that the brig had been blown open by a powder explosion and he told Niles Ronjan, who promptly guessed the truth.
- His father, Earl Hartwig, said, "I think there was a powder explosion -accidental - that caused the explosion."
- One set of rifling marks going down the barrel with a ram rod, and another coming out with the powder explosion behind it!
- The British were caught off guard, and suffered further misfortune when a powder explosion under the half-deck dismounted three guns, and killed or wounded eighteen men.
- A number of du Pont men perished, sometimes heroically, in powder explosions.
- A powder explosion in 1871 caused extensive damage to the barracks and required their reconstruction.
- The earthworks of the fort are still generally intact, surrounding the huge hole that was caused by the powder explosion.
- The sharpness of the black powder explosion also meant that guns were subjected to extreme stress.
- The purpose of these measures was to reduce the possibility of sparks and the potential for a powder explosion.
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