Example Sentences

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Locadio dynamited his team's chances and prepared the ground for Scotland's comeback.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

The French Revolution then dynamited Europe’s old order and dynamized society as a collective organism, evolving in a “quasi-biological and determinate way.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

A place where dead sailors had been buried, the island was dynamited and removed in the early 20th century to widen the harbor and make it more usable for shipping traffic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

The Germans also dynamited the dam years later as they retreated after repairing the Soviet damage.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

On May 11, 1906, the wrecking company dynamited the wheel, for scrap.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson