How to Use black powder in a Sentence
black powder
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This Venice home takes its moody themes to the next level in the all-black powder room.
—Nena Farrell, Sunset Magazine, 2 July 2020
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The airbag had exploded and deployed black powder that hung in the air.
—Ariana Giorgi, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
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But the shade Not Your Basic Witch is a straight-up black powder pigment.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 5 Oct. 2018
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Photos from the scene show what appears to be a pipe with a bag of black powder removed from it.
—oregonlive, 19 Aug. 2020
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One serves as the base, upon which a fairly hefty cylinder of black powder is placed.
—John D'anna, azcentral, 3 July 2019
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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
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Mothers apply the black powder to their newborns to deflect nazar, or the evil eye.
—Mehrunnisa Wani, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2021
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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
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The planes also dropped 20 smaller bombs that only had black powder charge.
—Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2022
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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
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The man advanced on officers in the Bronx just before 4:00 a.m. with a black powder pistol.
—NBC News, 18 Apr. 2020
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Inside the bag, the FBI says, were threaded galvanized pipes, a kitchen timer and homemade black powder.
—W.j. Hennigan, Time, 10 Mar. 2021
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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
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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
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Storing volatile black powder in populous New York City had grown too risky.
—Julie Besonen, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
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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
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Even the most elaborate fireworks show starts with a single crack, as black powder shoots shell from mortar.
—Popular Science, 10 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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According to this drawing, the Hunley’s charge contained 135 pounds of black powder.
—Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It was filled halfway with black powder and detonated using a time fuse.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 7 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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Houchin said that Gardner created the .45 Colt ammunition blank by adding black powder and glue to a casing.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2023
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It's made from sturdy steel with a black powder coat finish that can lend itself to a number of different backyard aesthetics.
—Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 13 May 2023
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