Sentence examples for detonator a from inspiring English sources

There was also the inventor of shock-absorbent torpedo detonator, a very unhappy manis a bird censor.

AA batteries filled with the explosive HMTD would serve as the detonator; a disposable camera would serve as the trigger.

The bomb, apparently consisting of dynamite, a detonator, a battery and a watch, had been placed In a closet at the back of the ninth‐floor reception room.

When residents discovered the bomb and called the police, the Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., issued a public apology and asserted that the "explosives" were actually bags of sugar tied together with wires and a detonator, a dummy used as part of a security exercise.

Nostalgia is a legal but dangerous substance in "Detonator," a repetitive, sluggishly paced nocturnal rumination on why we bother reuniting with old friends we purposefully left behind.

A tape recorder or a phone could mask a detonator for a remote-controlled bomb -- a common danger in Iraq.

In principle, all IEDs consist of an initiating mechanism, a detonator, an explosive charge, and a casing or collection of projectiles (such as ball bearings or nails) that produces lethal fragments upon detonation.

We didn't know if the hand we would shake at each door held a detonator to a suicide vest or a small glass of hot, sugary tea.

Both of his shoes contained sophisticated bombs made of plastic explosives, detonating cord, a homemade detonator and a safety fuse with black powder, F.B.I. experts said.

Imagine that I have a detonator and a bomb.

It takes a detonator, like a blasting cap, to release the stored energy.