dynamite
noun
a high explosive, originally consisting of nitroglycerin mixed with an absorbent substance, now with ammonium nitrate usually replacing the nitroglycerin.
had dynamited
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past perfectof dynamite.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“Sometimes a levee would go in the night, somewhere upriver. In the morning, the rumor would spread that the Army Engineers had dynamited it to relieve the pressure on the city.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2021
By then, developers had dynamited the teeming coral gardens to build fancy beach resorts.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2012
One of the many Finnish ski patrols trying to cut the Leningrad-Murmansk railway made its way back to Finland after a nine-day trip and reported it had dynamited the railroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
The city had dynamited to the ground every building in the near north side's Pruitt-Igoe project, nicknamed "the monster."
From Time Magazine Archive
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Germans had dynamited the bridge.”
From The Boy Allies on the Firing Line Or, Twelve Days Battle Along the Marne by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
