How to use "gunpowder" in a sentence

New people arrived all the time, bringing with them gunpowder and weapons to fight the soldiers who would be arriving very soon.

Marius, who had thrown away his guns and was now without a weapon, began to move towards a barrel of gunpowder he had seen near the door of the wine shop

Marius was standing at the foot of the barricade, holding a flaming torch above a barrel of gunpowder.

Marius smiled and lowered the torch towards the gunpowder

Half an hour later he left the house, dressed in his National Guard uniform, with a loaded gun and a pocket full of gunpowder, and made his way towards the market district of Paris.