Gunpowder used in a sentence

Gunpowder in a sentence as a noun

They once loaded a shell with too much gunpowder and left a crater in someone's back yard 10-15 miles away.

But real murders get harder to investigate as there will be no gunpowder residue.

The gunpowder formula was changed to yield explosive force, rather than slow burn as in fire-lances and rockets.

Hundreds of years ago there I'm sure there were swordsmen who complained that gunpowder-based warfare was dishonorable.

A chemist can make nylon, gunpowder, matches, or plastic from relatively easily obtained chemicals even in ancient times, for example.

In every type of discussion comparing the West to China, they keep bringing it up the fact that China has thousands of years of history, and has invented things like gunpowder.

They came close to uniting Eurasia into a world empire, and in so doing they spread throughout it technologies like paper, gunpowder, paper money, or the compass and trousers.

Its been shown, for example, that troops at the time of the revolutionary war that fired on each other by and large missed - troops would load gunpowder but not the bullet; they would aim over the heads of the opposing troop at the last second; and so on.