Leland: When I first read "a pressure switch in the seat to denote a person", I thought you wrote "detonate". From Wordnik.com. [Requiring digital cameras and camera phones to make an audible click.] Reference
The mine will "detonate" with 10lbs of pressure, and will produce a loud report. From Wordnik.com. [PR.com Press Releases] Reference
With power already supplied, the only thing that’s needed to detonate is to complete the electrical circuit. From Wordnik.com. [Mercy Falls] Reference
'detonate' folk usually take notice, get all scared like because they are not used to me using explosive words. From Wordnik.com. [Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories] Reference
Why did the second round of bombs fail to detonate?. From Wordnik.com. [IT CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE] Reference
And some -- between 5 and 30 percent -- don't detonate at all. From Wordnik.com. [Seeds Of Carnage] Reference
The playwright's delicious one-liners detonate with precision timing. From Wordnik.com. [Love Over Easy, Hold The Mayo] Reference
Remote-controlled land rovers can detonate bombs or buried land mines. From Wordnik.com. [Robotic Age Draws Closer] Reference
Plenty of questions remain: Why does the brain stem detonate during sleep?. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson's World] Reference
They learned to make and detonate bombs of various types, including suicide bombs. From Wordnik.com. [Back In Business] Reference
He decided to detonate his vest, and tried to time it so it detonated on my aircraft. From Wordnik.com. [Female Pilot Reflects On War And Evolving Army] Reference
It is almost impossible to detonate until primed, at which time it becomes violently unstable. From Wordnik.com. [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference
… It turns out only the blasting cap went off on the device and the 155 round didn't detonate. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Journey: Stephen M. McGowan] Reference
(Soundbite of typing) NOGUCHI: An explosive that can detonate underwater, or a giant Kevlar balloon. From Wordnik.com. [Helping The Pros: Amateur Ideas To Stop The Oil Spill] Reference
At the last moment, Wen decided not to detonate, and miraculously, the water crested and the dam held. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Technocrat] Reference
The GI's marched in silence, placing their feet carefully to avoid tripwires that could detonate an IED. From Wordnik.com. [In Diyala, A New Offensive] Reference
The haversacks had dual timers (one served as a backup) that would detonate the C-4 two hours after being set. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Warriors] Reference
But a lot of the bombs that were dropped did not detonate, and they are still creating problems 40 years later. From Wordnik.com. [Laos' Unexploded Bombs: Deadly Scrap Metal, Toys] Reference
That flight had been blown up by a barometric device, set to detonate when the plane reached a certain altitude. From Wordnik.com. [Death On Flight 800] Reference
More than 400 people are killed as four suicide bombers detonate cars in two villages occupied by Yazidi Kurds in northern Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Timeline: Iraq 2003-2010] Reference
That's the Brit all over; polite to the last, please and pardon and thank you very much, even as they're about to detonate your undies. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an I.R.A. Terrorist] Reference
We are at war right now, and it is quite likely that Al Qaeda is working on plans to detonate a nuclear device in one of our big cities. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Sneaking up in the dark by boat, the commandos overwhelmed the sleeping guards before they could shoot back or detonate high explosives. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret War] Reference
Twenty minutes later they flew in and I watched the skids of the helicopter touch down, half expecting it to detonate another mine and kill us all. From Wordnik.com. [Vietnam Memories] Reference
The sophisticated part is that it appears that they've rewired cell phones so they can call from anywhere in the world to detonate the device. From Wordnik.com. ['Every Contact Leaves a Trace'] Reference
But perhaps between 10 August, 1904, and the following May they had improved their fuses, so as to detonate the charge more certainly and thoroughly. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
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