How to Use high explosive in a Sentence

high explosive

noun

• Send them stealth bombers, high explosives, send in Seal teams and the tanks.
  — Amanda Morris, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• The bombers dropped 40 bombs, half were high explosive and the rest were WP smoke bombs to mark the impact points.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2020
• Run some det cord and high explosives to the wing joints, and make fast work of taking apart one of the Army's workhorses.
  — Jake Swearingen, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2015
• About 40 percent of each one’s weight is composed of a high explosive mixture; the rest comes from its steel case.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• Of the twenty high explosive bombs dropped, sixteen hit the target area and twelve hit the lava tunnel in question.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2020
• As the balloons dropped their last sandbags and neared the ground, other small flash bombs would trigger to drop the incendiary bombs and high explosive.
  — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Most were equipped with triggers on their noses — three small rubber balls on springs — to detonate high explosives.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Air and ship-launched missiles both do damage through the onboard high explosive warhead.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Sep. 2021
• Unlike other drones, the LJ-1 can be sent on a one way trip with a high explosive payload, turning it into a cruise missile.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2019
• The tank's 120mm main gun fires high explosive rounds or, even better, kinetic rounds that can punch holes in almost anything.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 22 Mar. 2018
• Iskander-M has a range of 310 miles and can carry a high explosive or nuclear payload.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2022
• The missile’s 500-pound high explosive charge then detonates, blowing the target apart from the inside.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2021
• Typical land mines consist of a metal body, high explosive charge, and a pressure switch.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2018
• Once a target is located, the drone rams the target and detonates a high explosive warhead.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2022
• This variant, known as Sub-Harpoon, can deliver a quarter ton of high explosive against the hull of an enemy ship from over 100 miles away.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2021
• The Air Force could quickly pass along target data to an Army artillery battery within range of the launcher, whose high explosive shells would get through any defense.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2021
• These rockets are usually unguided and armed with a high explosive warhead of 10 pounds or less.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2021
• Special-effects supervisor Scott Fisher and his team used high explosives and fuel, mixed to give the shape of a mushroom cloud, and then slowed the footage down to make the explosion seem bigger.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
• Minutes later, twenty-two miles and more to sea, towering waterspouts marked the landing places of the great projectiles, crammed with high explosives.
  — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• Most bombings use what is called a low explosive, something like black powder, instead of a high explosive like dynamite.
  — Ali Watkins, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
• The warhead is designed to slam into a warship at blisteringly fast speed, then detonate a high explosive or even nuclear warhead deep in the bowels of the ship.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Aug. 2020
• Five days earlier, stevedores in Brooklyn had finished loading her with a staggering 6 million pounds of high explosives, 13 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty.
  — Time, 21 Dec. 2017
• The gun is capable of firing high explosive shells and anti-tank shells, and its 42-degree elevation gives it the ability to fire like a mortar or howitzer at non-line of sight targets.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2021
• On most days, mortar crews at the outpost lob dozens of rounds of high explosives and white-phosphorous smoke into the mountains, either to kill Islamic State fighters or just to discourage them from settling in.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 15 May 2018
• The bombs themselves were a varying combination of thermite devices, high explosives, and shrapnel.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Feb. 2023
• The pressure cooker bombs contained high explosive materials and nails to increase the harm to victims, said Makassar city police chief Witnu Urip Laksana.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• Kinzhal reportedly has a range of 1,200 miles, can attack ground or naval targets, and packs a nuclear or conventional high explosive warhead.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 July 2018
• The high explosive round detonated shortly after leaving the gun barrel.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2021
• Scientists have used bees to sniff out chemicals associated with cancer and with diabetes on patients’ breath and to detect the presence of high explosives.
  — Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• Chemical agents may be deployed through delivery systems that produce no high explosive impact.
  — Sohail H. Hashmi, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2013

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024