How to Use black powder in a Sentence

black powder

noun

• This Venice home takes its moody themes to the next level in the all-black powder room.
  — Nena Farrell, Sunset Magazine, 2 July 2020
• The airbag had exploded and deployed black powder that hung in the air.
  — Ariana Giorgi, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
• But the shade Not Your Basic Witch is a straight-up black powder pigment.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 5 Oct. 2018
• Photos from the scene show what appears to be a pipe with a bag of black powder removed from it.
  — oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2020
• One serves as the base, upon which a fairly hefty cylinder of black powder is placed.
  — John D'anna, azcentral, 3 July 2019
• But about halfway through the clip, the record scratched and Cox appeared on screen with black powder covering the tip of her nose.
  — Hanna Flanagan, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• Mothers apply the black powder to their newborns to deflect nazar, or the evil eye.
  — Mehrunnisa Wani, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2021
• The top rail will help keep your cargo in place, and the black powder coat prevents corrosion.
  — Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 28 June 2022
• The planes also dropped 20 smaller bombs that only had black powder charge.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2022
• And in some places, black powder guns are also one of the few ways a person with a felony conviction can purchase a firearm.
  — NBC News, 22 May 2021
• The man advanced on officers in the Bronx just before 4:00 a.m. with a black powder pistol.
  — NBC News, 18 Apr. 2020
• Inside the bag, the FBI says, were threaded galvanized pipes, a kitchen timer and homemade black powder.
  — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 10 Mar. 2021
• Jones believes the shell recovered by the Cobb bomb squad used a paper time fuse to ignite the black powder inside.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 4 Mar. 2022
• An affidavit says the men broke a window to the imam’s office and threw a pipe bomb containing black powder into the mosque.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• Storing volatile black powder in populous New York City had grown too risky.
  — Julie Besonen, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
• Percussion caps carry a small amount of gunpowder and are used to ignite the charge on black powder guns.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2022
• Even the most elaborate fireworks show starts with a single crack, as black powder shoots shell from mortar.
  — Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
• But only for a moment as the net, driven by small charges of black powder in each of the blasting devices, rose and dropped atop what seemed like hundreds of blue-winged teal.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2021
• The savviest hunters recognized the advantage over the big, slow, hard kicking, straight walled black powder cartridges that were still in vogue at that time.
  — Bryce M. Towsley, Outdoor Life, 9 Dec. 2020
• The pressure cookers were filled with nails, ball bearings and black powder by the bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev to maximize the damage.
  — Dan Frosch, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• According to this drawing, the Hunley’s charge contained 135 pounds of black powder.
  — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
• Each shell is crafted by hand, filled with black powder, wrapped tightly in brown paper and twine, then packed into mortars.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2020
• What emerges is plastics, copper, and aluminum, and a black powder that is 40 percent graphite and lesser amounts of lithium, nickel, and cobalt.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 13 July 2022
• Rather than use platinum, the team used a catalyst of cobalt phosphide nanoparticles placed on carbon to form a fine black powder.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2019
• Both men said Hari picked them up on Aug. 4 in a rented pickup truck filled with assault rifles, a sledgehammer, masks, gloves and a 20-pound black powder bomb.
  — Andy Mannix, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• It was filled halfway with black powder and detonated using a time fuse.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2023
• Officials said black powder was discovered in at least one package along with a fuse, but it was neutralized by the FBI.
  — Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
• Hari instructed McWhorter to then light the fuse on a 20-pound black powder pipe bomb and throw it through the broken window, prosecutors say.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2021
• Only one detonated -- a foot-long pipe that contained black powder, a battery, wiring, nails and screws.
  — Chris Boyette, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
• Stuffing brass with large-diameter bullets and lots of black powder was the go-to strategy.
  — John B. Snow, Field & Stream, 8 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024