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    Use "fulminate" in a sentence

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    1. Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed; Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your sins


    2. the bamboo cylinders and braced for the onslaught was amazed at this fulminate response


    1. Fulminated my courage, I just had the attack for defense:


    2. The Election Commission’s Model Code of Conduct over a nine-phase election violates the Code of Common Sense, fulminated voices on Twitter


    3. It cannot be logically inferred that it goes back a thinking, intelligent being, until it goes with its resurrection body, though it is fulminated from ten thousand pulpits that it does


    4. where terrible imprecations were being fulminated against the exmayor


    5. This bull of anathemas, scarcely less than Papal, is to be fulminated, in the name of the American people, from the high tower of their authority, under the pretence of asserting their rights and vindicating their wrongs


    1. “Vienna,” says Volkheimer, and Neumann Two fulminates about Hapsburg palaces and Wiener schnitzel and girls whose vulvas taste like apple strudel


    1. Leonardo was crawling under the cloak of sunflowers and daisies while the black magician was throwing fulminating beams that were falling down scratching the surrounding surface, leaving smoky craters of considerable size


    2. Because of these traumatic memories fulminating in the abdominal


    3. the ball of white light which was fulminating there and then I


    4. Embarrassed by her niece blurting out her accident proneness to the men gathered around them, Kathy directed a fulminating glare in Cassie’s direction, but was distracted by her other niece, Amanda


    5. I was standing in the middle of the large foyer with Janet when Nigel Worley came down the stairs with his fulminating anger


    6. Who was that Corsican of six and twenty? What signified that splendid ignoramus, who, with everything against him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser on Beaulieu, Melas on Wurmser, Mack on Melas? Who was this novice in war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school excommunicated him, and as it lost its footing; hence, the implacable rancor of the old Caesarism against the new; of the regular sword against the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius


    7. During a late lecture in the laboratory of Yale College, a quantity of fulminating mercury, probably about 100 or 150 grains, lay upon a paper, the paper lay on a small stool, which was made of pine plank, one inch and a half thick; a glass gas receiver, 5 or 6 quarts capacity, stood over the powder, as a guard, but without touching it, and stool and all stood on one of the shelves of the pneumatic cistern, surrounded by tall tubes and other glasses, several of which were within 6 or 8 inches


    8. A small quantity of the fulminating powder, at the distance of a few feet, was merely flashed, by a coal of fire, but without explosion


    9. A man who had bought the secret of making fulminating silver, had prepared as much as resulted from the solution of one ounce and a half


    10. The unhappy man no sooner touched the fulminating silver with a knife, than it exploded with its usual violence; the table was split in two; blood issued copiously from every part of his face, not from wounds, for it does not appear that the fragments hit him, but, according to the opinion of a competent judge, the blood was actually forced through the pores of the skin by the power of the explosion, which very nearly destroyed his eyes

    11. In a late lecture in the laboratory of Yale College, some fulminating silver, on the point of a knife, was in the act of being put upon a copper-plate connected with one pole of a galvanic battery in active operation, the other pole was not touched by the experimenter; but it seems that the influence which was communicated through the floor of the room was sufficient instantly to explode the powder, as soon as the knife touched the copper-plate; the knifeblade was broken in two, and one half of it thrown to a distance among the audience


    12. Recently also, we are informed, in one of the foreign journals, that a man in England, who accidentally trod on a quantity of fulminating silver, had his foot nearly destroyed by the explosion


    13. Torpedoes of fulminating silver, 169


    14. Torpedoes of fulminating silver, i, 169


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    Synonyms for "fulminate"

    fulminate rail threaten bluster curse swear at denounce upbraid menace blow up blast detonate erupt discharge thunder rumble

    "fulminate" definitions

    a salt or ester of fulminic acid


    criticize severely


    come on suddenly and intensely


    cause to explode violently and with loud noise