The British troops in France found their weapons futile and sent across the Channel the cry of "Send us high explosives or we perish!
Besides cordite and similar mixtures of nitroglycerin and nitrocellulose there are two other classes of high explosives in common use.
But when the Germans brought up their great howitzers and hurled undreamed-of quantities of high explosives on these forts, they broke and crumbled to pieces.
By the way, he is not to be confused with his younger brother, Hudson Maxim, the inventor of high explosives, who has always been an American to the core.
The cost of building this gun is estimated at two and a half million dollars and its 400-pound shell would land only about sixty pounds of high explosives on the target.
The ground about was littered with the dead, still being blown about by high explosives.
They were under the cover of that wall over there, about a hundred yards away, and fixing up a charge of high explosives to knock a breach in the wall.
If all the war had been like this it would have been more endurable for men who had no need to hide in holes in the earth, nor crouch for three months below ground, until an hour or two of massacre below a storm of high explosives.
They were the first-fruit of the speeding up of munition-factories at home after the public outcry against shell shortage and the lack of high explosives.
Half a score, who had shown themselves in one group, vanished; and Chester was buffeted again by the shock of high explosives.
The French batteries played all over those fields, spraying down shrapnel, detonating the frightful charges of high explosives.
He gets used to being bombed and is bored thereby; gets used to gas alarms and bombardments; to high explosives, spewing shrapnel, and purring bullets; gets used to eating his meals standing up and taking his rest in broken bits.
All the varieties of Hun projectiles were hurled at them, high explosives of various sizes, shrapnel and gas.
Savaroff and myself are very largely interested in the manufacture of high explosives.
After all, one can't expect a really graceful literary style from a High Explosives Syndicate.
Smoking in business hours is one of those agreeable luxuries which an inventor of high explosives finds it healthier to deny himself.
Cellars, dugouts, and shelters of any description were obliterated or their entrances had been closed by firing charges of high explosives.
Running short of high explosives, the Germans often threw in bombs, trench-mortars, etc.
The size, of course, depends on the charge of high explosives used, the depth of the mine-galleries, and the soil one springs the mine in.
At other times, and this has happened more than once in the clay soil of Flanders, we have broken into enemy galleries and fought them with automatic pistols, bombs, and portable charges of high explosives.
For them it must have appeared to be the chance of a lifetime, and with their customary prodigality of ammunition they continued to pour bouquet after bouquet of high explosives or combined shrapnel and common shells into our works.
Between early September and late October, 1918, they dropped thousands of tons of high explosives inside of Germany.
Again there was a succession of reports from German quick-firers on the far side of the misty valley and like echoes of detonations of high explosives; then the row of expanding smoke clouds was prolonged by several new ones.
Then they tried sweeping over the Ridge from the cover of the reverse slope in counter-attacks, only to be whipped by machine gun fire, lashed by shrapnel and crushed by high explosives--themselves mixed with the ruins of the windmill.
Some shrapnel searching a road in front and a scream overhead indicated a parcel of high explosives for a village at the rear.
Shells are whizzing by at the rate of two or three a minute, high explosives bursting on contact behind their backs about as far away as the other side of a cottage parlor.
The German papers boast that it took 28 tons of high explosives, and any one can see, this hour, the plain of Coucy covered with a white layer of powdered limestone, for miles around.
As one wounded man was seen to fall, Private Smith dashed out to render first aid under the shower of high explosives; he was himself struck down at once.
The opposing trenches are impervious to rifle fire, but not to the lobbing of high explosives thrown in a curve from anything up to forty yards.
The Ordnance Department eventually put into effect a standard policy for the use of high explosives.
All the work of the explosives section can be subdivided under four group heads--raw materials, propellants, high explosives, and loading.
Prior to that time the only success achieved in throwing large charges of high explosives was by use of the Zalinski pneumatic dynamite gun, a battery of which had been made and mounted at great expense at Sandy Hook.
They lie grey wet lumps of death over a great stretch of ground, many of them half buried by their comrades or by high explosives.
The enemy was there in strength, and his guns were answering ours with a heavy barrage of high explosives.
Whatever their motive had been, many of these men had come out, and they lay in heaps, mangled by shell-fire that came across the fields to them in a deep belt of high explosives.
The city was dead, killed by storms of high explosives.
Since that time all maritime nations have made a close study of the subject and have adopted various high explosives, according to the results of their experiments.
High explosives, on the contrary, in their most efficient form, are extremely quick-burning substances, which exert an enormous pressure within a limited radius.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high explosives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
