Sentence examples for a petard from inspiring English sources

Kids can don uniforms, fire a petard, build a Bailey bridge and drive a tank, on a quest to understand the famous invasion.

Its 75 mm gun continued to do damage until 16:00, when a modified Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers AVREE) tank fired a large petard charge into its rear entrance.

The 75 mm gun was finally silenced at 16:00, when the AVRE tank fired a large petard charge into the rear entrance of the casemate.

This musical petard hoists an accompaniment to a drunken soldier's – sung by a helium-swallowing tenor, of course!

Then though, unlikely as it should be, comes the doomsday scenario that will always haunt England and their supporters, the Adelaide spectre, for having made much of the running in the match it is they who are the only side that can lose, hoist, in a way, on the petard of their own heady first innings run-rate.

England lost the second Test by 95 runs shortly after the drinks break in the afternoon session of the final day, hoist with their own petard on a pitch prepared to suit themselves, and sometimes those watching events unfold can do no more than shake their heads and stare blankly.

These postmodernists are being hoisted by their own petard by a student who hasn't even read the majority of the works he's stealing from.

But then comes this New York Times interview, to which Ford apparently brought his own petard, and a handful of lit matches.

Naturally I am delighted to see the Hockey Mom and her handlers hoist on their own small-town, anti- elitist" petanti- elitists a fine and beautiful thing.

Given that the hackers have been hoisted on their own petard, it's a delightful bit of Schadenfreude.

It's possible to conceive of a politics that doesn't need to invest so much in the values and transgressions of a small number of individuals, but that kind of thing isn't as good sport as hoisting an old duffer by his petard.