How to Use detonator in a Sentence

detonator

noun

• The fishing line was taped both to the inside of the wheel and to a detonator, rigging the bomb to explode when the wheel turned.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• The team that gets to the third detonator first drops all the remaining teams and wins the entire thing.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• When this occurs, the detonator in the rear of the bomb becomes live and is set off by impact.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• He was taught to make explosives, wrap them in a vest and hook them to a detonator.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
• Greef gets the last before the trooper can set off his detonator.
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2020
• The other man honed a kitchen knife against a stone, sliced off an inchlong fuse, wrapped it in a piece of aluminum and strapped on a match as a detonator.
  — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• The pipe bombs, which had an hour-long kitchen timer as a detonator, were viable, but didn’t detonate and no one was hurt, the FBI said.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024
• When Chub triggered a detonator lodged in one of the mines, an enormous cloud of flame roiled up from the now impassable bridge.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• At the scene, the bomb squad removed the phone—which was designed to be used as either timer or detonator—from the pressure cooker.
  — Mark Warren, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2017
• The man speaking to him appears on the screen clad in a similar vest and holding a detonator.
  — Malcom Forbes Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• The city of Limburg said the bomb probably had a chemical detonator that failed when the bomb was dropped.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 25 June 2019
• The thermal detonators appear throughout the films, often in the hands of a bounty hunter.
  — Gabrielle Russon, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• If a passing ship drifts too close to the mines with its metal hull, the altered magnetic field would set off the detonator.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2018
• Where did Leia get the idea to threaten Jabba with a thermal detonator?
  — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2018
• Deminers spotted a thin wire connected to a stick on one side and a detonator on the other.
  — Washington Post, 29 May 2021
• Out in the backyard, there’s a creepy-looking mine from the First World War, about a foot in diameter and prickly all over with detonators.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
• Two hand grenades and two detonators were found on the bus, police and prosecutors said.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2017
• In the final scene of the episode, Offred wields a pen in her hand, pressing her thumb down upon it much as Ofglen used a detonator to cause so much damage.
  — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
• Throughout the rest of the land, the main walkways were open, although lines formed to buy a $6 Coca-Cola shaped like a thermal detonator and at the more expensive shops.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• Terrorists could even rig up a wireless detonator that could be triggered from the ground.
  — Erik Baard, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2001
• Flying from the beast’s mouth, Mando pulls the trigger on his detonator, and the krayt dragon collapses.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2020
• One of the pair removes his jacket, revealing a detonator on his back.
  — Toyin Owoseje, CNN, 22 Feb. 2021
• Straight from the most recent season of the show, the Pirate Snub Fighter comes with stud shooters, a compartment for a thermal detonator, and two brand-new figurines.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
• The last Boba had seen of Valance, the cyborg bounty hunter had been facing down the wrong end of a thermal detonator, his purpose served in helping Boba get to Solo faster.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• The paper also released images of what may have been the detonator, and of metal fragments, including nuts and a screw, that had been packed around the explosive.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 May 2017
• Dinner didn’t blow up in their faces because the claylike substance only explodes when set off by a detonator.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Mines are equipped with pressure plates that, when triggered by footsteps, wheels, or tank tracks, activate a detonator.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Apr. 2021
• The Navy’s theory was that the man rigged a detonator and stuck it between bags of explosive propellant powder.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2021
• One by one, Mando fends them off, eventually grabbing a primed detonator and tossing it back in their faces.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2020
• The office said investigators who detained the couple and searched their car found more than a pound of TATP explosives and a detonator.
  — NBC News, 2 July 2018

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024