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Meanings of powder magazine in English
A storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored.
Usage of powder magazine in English
1
Abandoning the fight he rushed into the powder magazine and fired it.
2
And you have hold of the rails round the old powder magazine.
3
He went in despair towards the powder magazine, with a lighted match.
4
It was an hospital, built by the side of a powder magazine.
5
A huge shell hit the powder magazine and tore my ship asunder.
6
When it fell it was as if a powder magazine blew up.
7
The explosion at Issy arose from a torpedo, not a powder magazine.
8
The first bloodshed would be the match in the powder magazine.
9
The actual announcement of the hanging was a match to a powder magazine.
10
A lucky shot from the buccaneers had found the powder magazine.
11
The recourse to metaphysics is like throwing a match into the powder magazine.
12
The British artillery, he quickly surmised, must have somehow struck a powder magazine.
13
If she were the flame, she had removed herself from the powder magazine.
14
He then attempted to bribe a sergeant to blow up the powder magazine.
15
And, now I recall it, I saw him yesterday near your powder magazine.
16
They've fired the powder magazine and blown it to the sky.'