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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dynamite .
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Examples
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Previously, the Army Corps dynamited a stretch of river levee in southern Missouri, flooding 200 square miles of farmland in an attempt to alleviate pressure from the Mississippi.
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Previously, the Army Corps dynamited a stretch of river levee in southern Missouri, flooding 200 square miles of farmland in an attempt to alleviate pressure from the Mississippi.
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To create "Arch," a rock and steel structure on the boardwalk at Redondo Beach in Seattle, John dynamited and fractured a 40-ton slab of solid rock then reassembled it intentionally leaving a few parts out like a jigsaw puzzle.
Darby Roach: Sculptor John T. Young, Turning Swords into Plowshares Darby Roach 2011
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He went after bootleggers, who sent him and his family death threats, he raided a Chinese opium kingpin who was paying off Buffalo cops, cracked down on coal profiteers, prosecuted strikers who had dynamited a rail line, and even had Schwab in court on liquor violation charges.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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To create "Arch," a rock and steel structure on the boardwalk at Redondo Beach in Seattle, John dynamited and fractured a 40-ton slab of solid rock then reassembled it intentionally leaving a few parts out like a jigsaw puzzle.
Darby Roach: Sculptor John T. Young, Turning Swords into Plowshares Darby Roach 2011
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He went after bootleggers, who sent him and his family death threats, he raided a Chinese opium kingpin who was paying off Buffalo cops, cracked down on coal profiteers, prosecuted strikers who had dynamited a rail line, and even had Schwab in court on liquor violation charges.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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There are structures in our politics that need to be dynamited.
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The last thing Mulcahy saw was Rinn going down like a dynamited chimney, the last sounds a sickening crunch of skull, the song of sirens and the screech of brakes, and Cassidy cursing above him.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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The Corps of Engineers already has dynamited a levee near Cairo, Ill., and opened a spillway outside of New Orleans to relieve pressure from the swollen river.
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When it came to April Fools', he dynamited decorum and put moderation to the torch.
The Beginning Douglas Edwards 2011
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