Crossword-Solution: DETONATES 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETONATES (5)

Red-gravel paths have been replaced by brick sidewalks; huge buildings rise before the eye; electric cars whiz in every direction; a tall, bristling iron fence surrounds the college yard; and an enormous clock on the tower of Memorial Hall detonates the hours in a manner which is by no means conducive to the sleep of the just and the rest of the weary.
Cambridge Sketches Frank Preston Stearns 2005
Fuses and detonates yielding Cr^{2}O^{3} and metallic lead, and forming an incrustation of PbO on the charcoal.
A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe Anonymous 2005
And--" his eyes went to the unlikely cheese grater over Lockley's shoulder--"and yours detonates explosives.
Operation Terror William Fitzgerald Jenkins 2006
After that charge detonates, there will be a hole in the floor, a good deal of shattered stone, and some splinters and shreds of metal.
Bloom of Cactus Robert Ames Bennet 2007
Beach a huge shell that detonates with a terrible crash, and every twenty minutes or so they treated us to one of these, and made the whole night hideous, and sleep impossible.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson 2008

Quotes with DETONATES (3)

I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Fate lies in wait like a fucking time bomb, rearranging and aligning the stars to its own satisfaction. Then, one day, it detonates right in your face and all you want to do is not exist. But it’s what you do to dislodge Fate’s teeth from your ass that matters.
Cecilia Robert
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.
Barton Gellman
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1985–2008).