Gunpowder

//ˈɡʌnˌpaʊdə//

"Gunpowder" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Gunpowder needs to be handled very carefully.

We must prevent the fire from reaching the gunpowder at any cost.

They blew up the bridge with gunpowder.

As the popping sound of the fireworks stopped, it suddenly became quiet around me. The smell of gunpowder somehow put me in a sentimental mood.

The Americans had very little gunpowder.

The Spanish soldiers used smokeless gunpowder.

It exploded like gunpowder.

He didn't invent gunpowder.

Do you know who invented gunpowder?

A spark caused the gunpowder to explode.

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They have been a bold, heroic, and purely self dependent nation, never having either courted,—or been subdued by—other Tribes or Europeans. But what early mind—a power—could face gunpowder and the firelocks? Hence their annihilation!

[…] he was […] never getting into quarrels with his neighbors and gunpowdering them out of house and home. His subjects loved him.

Some restaurants try and give their dosas the "ethnic" touch by slipping along a small dish of mulaga podi-gunpowder mixed with oil as well, but that isn't always enough.

It was a hardcore Andhra lunch from a restaurant famous for its lunch meals. And that is where I had my first run-in with 'gunpowder'. And to be honest, I hated it.

In fact, I’ve long suspected that the popularity of gunpowder or molagapodi outside South India has little to do with the burst of flavours it serves.

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