Sentence examples for High explosive from inspiring English sources

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High explosive

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Any powerful chemical explosive that, upon detonation, produces gas at a very high rate, thereby producing a very violent effect.

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High explosive shells weighed 774 kg.

Trinitrotoluene (TNT) is the most useful military high explosive.

Some of the trucks are glowing, twisted wrecks, clearly hit by some form of high explosive.

The rockets carried a variety of warheads, including high explosive, antipersonnel, incendiary, smoke, and chemical.

Instead, he said, a high explosive would shatter most of it into chunks.

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Other rounds carry a lethal high-explosive charge.

Airstrikes and high-explosive artillery fire are in disfavor.

"After the flares, the next rounds were high-explosive".

These munitions were armor-piercing High-Explosive Anti-Tank (or HEAT) rounds and High-Explosive Squash Head (or HESH) rounds.

"I fired with my M-203, 40-millimeter high-explosive rounds.

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