How to Use gunpowder in a Sentence

gunpowder

noun

• The more gunpowder that is used, the bigger the flash and blast from a prop gun.
  — Lisa Respers France and Sofia Couceiro, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
• At least one round burst through the wall, clouding the air with the smell of gunpowder.
  — John Woodrow Cox, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Oct. 2022
• There was shelling and shooting nearby, and the smell of death and gunpowder hung in the air.
  — Loay Ayyoub, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• There were wails from inside, and the air smelled of gunpowder.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• The sound of the gunshot, every muscle in my body tensed, the smell of gunpowder.
  — Gabrielle Union, Glamour, 18 Oct. 2017
• No one was hit, but Spruill had cuts and gunpowder residue on her hands.
  — Elizabeth Zavala, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Jan. 2018
• When a gun trigger is pulled, the primer ignites the gunpowder and fires the bullet.
  — NBC News, 25 Oct. 2021
• The streets are damaged and covered with rubble, and the air smells of dust and gunpowder.
  — Ibrahim Dahman, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• The overcast sky was gauzy, like one of his gunpowder drawings from the 1960s.
  — Mark Rozzo, Vanities, 30 May 2018
• Smelling the gunpowder and seeing the smoke, and seeing the red on the floor and having flesh and body matter in my hair.
  — Celeste Katz, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2018
• The artillery shells are filled with gunpowder in two tiers.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2022
• The woman found the 11-year-old boy with a hole in his neck, police say, and smelled what seemed to be gunpowder.
  — Josh Magness, miamiherald, 25 Apr. 2018
• The bullets sit on a small mound of gunpowder which burns when a gun’s firing pin strikes a primer at the base of the casing.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2018
• With a dose of peer pressure, Klocke poured in a cup of gunpowder and repeated the process.
  — Cortlynn Stark, kansascity, 2 July 2018
• The idea was for the gunpowder to blast the colored powder indicating the gender out the top of the stand.
  — Philip Joens, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
• If the cord failed, the gunpowder was meant to ignite and quickly end the suffering.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
• When a trigger is pulled, the primer ignites the gunpowder, shooting the bullet through the barrel of a gun...
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2021
• But if the house was set up with an open conductor, the charge would ignite the gunpowder and the sides of the house would collapse with a loud bang.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2023
• There’d be more than one of them, swords would be swinging around with reckless abandon and the smell of gunpowder would be in the air.
  — Curtis Silver, WIRED, 9 Sep. 2009
• The smell of gunpowder hung in the air as the fake shooter took down a student actor who emerged from a room nearby.
  — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• As the shooting progresses, red shell casings pop out of the guns and the salty-sweet aroma of gunpowder fills the air.
  — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 30 May 2017
• The play is one long fuse quickly sputtering its way to a keg of gunpowder.
  — Robert W. Butler, kansascity, 22 Oct. 2017
• Boyle, for his part, wondered whether it could be harnessed as a starter for gunpowder.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
• And when Richard Fierro saw the muzzle flashes and smelled the gunpowder, his training kicked in.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
• Even to this day, the bite of the autumn air, the change in season and a slight whiff of gunpowder bring back fond memories of those days and that rite of passage.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2018
• In the outdoors, anything from dirt to gunpowder residue can get into your eyes.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 18 Feb. 2020
• Both Microsoft and Google also happen to have much more gunpowder in the form of cash on hand.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 21 June 2019
• Fireworks for Fourth of July, that gunpowder kind of smell.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 11 Oct. 2017
• Astronauts say that the moon smells like used gunpowder.
  — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 15 July 2024
• However, that plan was thwarted by Armand de Caulaincourt, Napoleon’s grand squire, who dumped the gunpowder out of the guns.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024