How To Use Shrapnel In A Sentence
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To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me.
1997: What I Wanted
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In 2013, shrapnel tore through his leg in a rocket attack.
Times, Sunday Times
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The door staircase suddenly snapped off the foundation and soared up into the clouds, suddenly being torn apart by flying shrapnel of glass and metal.
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He reviewed pages of typed medical records and scribbled notes that charted with clinical precision each sailors fatal wounds: Blast injury to brain, Multiple bullet and shrapnel wounds, Exsanguination from complete transection of body.
The Attack on the Liberty
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A ringing twang interrupted the scene as a large piece of shrapnel ricocheted off a 500 - pounder in the bomb bay, causing me to momentarily slam the door shut.
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The bomb exploded, sending shrapnel whistling through the trees.
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And, as if the moment couldn't turn any more unfortunate, one of these shadow spikes struck the car's fuel tank, rupturing it and causing the yellow cab to explode into shrapnel and into flames.
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They constantly shell with shrapnel the third line on the chance of bagging our reinforcements to the first line.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was wounded by shrapnel in March 1916, trepanned, and died of Spanish flu in November 1918.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Then the valley was filled with high-explosive shells, varied by occasional shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, any reader wishing to help Jason escape the cold streets of penury and warm himself by the fire of solvency should begin rummaging for shrapnel in their pockets now.
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The explosion sent shrapnel flying through the sides of cars on the crowded highway.
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Most of the shells fired by artillery guns were high explosive shells which could throw shrapnel over a wide distance in the trenches.
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In places the pockmarks of shrapnel and the scorches of fire were left on view.
David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
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Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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He was injured after shrapnel tore into his leg during an ambush.
The Sun
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The chandelier crashed into the tiled floor, sending out shrapnel of black and white chippings.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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But any homely illusions were quickly dispelled by Turkish shrapnel and stubborn shellfire, resulting in heavy casualties.
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The armored car is said to have been hit by shrapnel from the explosion.
Assailants in Yemen Attack British Diplomats, Frenchman
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On our bombing run with the bomb doors open we could hear the shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns pinging on our bomb casings.
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This, Mr Shrapnel, our gunner, trained right across the slaver's bows, and at the word of command, ` Fire! 'let drive with a bang that shook the steamer right down to her kelson and seemed to stop her way for the moment, sending her back, as it were, with the recoil.
The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
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These dastardly bombs contain coils of metal that fragment when the core charge detonates, usually in an airburst that showers people below with shrapnel.
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So now, all you lucky people whose names I ordered worked into a rather longish piece of boilerplate latin vocative verse can now share in the tranquil blessings of soft breezes in forested glades, mostly free of singing shrapnel and the deep digestive grunt of artillery.
Archive 2007-06-01
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There are closed shops, crumbling apartment blocks and empty offices and schools, many pancaked from bombardment and pock-marked with bullet and shrapnel holes.
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One detonated a few feet from Aguero, peppering him with shrapnel and deafening him temporarily in one ear.
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A 20-year-old man in his house when it was bombed ‘took shrapnel in his leg,’ Campbell recounted.
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These retained bullets often gave rise to remarkably little trouble in this situation; thus I have a skiagram of a shrapnel bullet lying in the deepest part of the subscapular fossa, which did not inconvenience its possessor.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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Inside her flat the carpet was covered in broken glass and plaster, the walls pockmarked by bullets and shrapnel.
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Just days earlier he was peppered with shrapnel when a roadside bomb exploded.
The Sun
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On our bombing run with the bomb doors open we could hear the shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns pinging on our bomb casings.
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The glass top shattered in a million pieces flying across the room like shrapnel.
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The first mines were employed in the American Civil War when Confederate forces linked tripwires to musket trigger mechanisms to fire black powder and shrapnel charges with percussion caps.
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In total, 400 pieces of shrapnel were removed from his body.
The Sun
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With the gunfire, shell explosions, shrapnel flying around him, he couldn't think with all destruction going on around him.
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He had been hit by shrapnel in the chest while at home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glass shatters and the metal gate, twisted beyond recognition, is thrown against the now shrapnel-pocked wall of the house.
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The shrapnel which had hit his leg was less than two inches from a major artery.
The Sun
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The battalion was shelled intermittently with high explosive and shrapnel.
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Under them 18-pounder shrapnel, shedding sparks of burning fuses, tore screaming away east.
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On our bombing run with the bomb doors open we could hear the shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns pinging on our bomb casings.
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Nearby buildings were pockmarked by shrapnel.
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On luckless occasions my protestations that dancing might aggravate an old shrapnel wound have been overruled, and I have been dragged out onto the dance floor.
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The truck was riddled with shrapnel holes and shards had punctured the fuel drums of two Challenger tanks.
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The metal bottle holding a pint of pyroligneous ether fuel next to it had exploded, sending shrapnel flying in all directions but evidently just barely passing over their heads as they huddled in the tent.
The Terror
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Shrapnel hit the armor plate under the cockpit, mangled the plating and destroyed the equipment mounted directly above.
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A piece of shrapnel had hit his cap badge and had penetrated the front of his skull.
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Those who escaped death from blast and shrapnel wounds were ordered outside, only to be mown down under a hail of bullets from automatic weapons.
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Soft flesh is no match for mortar shells, rocket-propelled grenade fragments and shrapnel thrown out in all directions by roadside bombs.
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Another mortar blast struck a tree looking down over the trenches, scattering fragments of shrapnel all down into the fortifications.
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The starry cast is led by Ralph Fiennes as Mark Antony, Simon Russell Beale as Cassius, Paul Rhys as Brutus, Fiona Shaw as Portia and John Shrapnel as Caesar.
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He was hit in the arm by flying shrapnel.
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He could feel the rips and tears, the little cuts opening under the movement of the shrapnel.
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This one was dangerous, this was where he must command in person, and he ran back to his original position while around him and overhead the storm of shrapnel and lyddite roared on unabated.
The Sound of Thunder
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On the earth, saturated with rivulets and little lakes of blood, gleamed the lead shrapnel bullets and the brighter, nickelled rifle-bullets and the barrels of rifles dropped from the hands of the fallen.
The Last Shot
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A second later, the building exploded, throwing bits of shrapnel everywhere and knocking the unprepared Chris off his feet.
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The shrapnel from the shells shredded anybody who got in the way.
The Sun
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The shrapnel weighs heavy in my pocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most had died along the way, but one young lad, his arm and leg completely shattered by shrapnel, was conscious and groaning.
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With shrapnel now in his back also, from German Focke-Wulf 190 fighters that shot down his Flying Fortress, shooting parachuting crew members as they drifted down over French hayfields.
He Drank
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Many people were killed, including a friend of mine who was hit by shrapnel from a van bomb.
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Detectives also found about 130 fragments of steel shrapnel lying around the blast scene.
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The explosion sent shrapnel flying through the sides of cars on the crowded highway.
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Crude containers packed with explosives and shrapnel have been dropped from helicopters on civilian areas in an effort to dislodge rebel fighters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shrapnel shell was unsuited to the disablement of aeroplanes.
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In others, he scatters the powder more randomly so that the drawing resembles a starburst or shrapnel blast.
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And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind?
Warning Against Searching for Monsters to Destroy
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Supersonic shrapnel tore through the wing and left it resembling what an Airbus official has described as anti-aircraft fire.
Reuters: Top News
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By altering the construction of the 10.5 c.m. universal shell for light field howitzers, the ` N. i 'projectile was created in the form of 10.5 c.m. shrapnel, the bullets of which were embedded in a sternutatory powder (double salts of dianisidine) well stamped down, instead of an explosive.
The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
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A pipe bomb hidden in a black backpack explodes in a park filled with people, injuring scores with shards of shrapnel.
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Most of the shells fired by artillery guns were high explosive shells which could throw shrapnel over a wide distance in the trenches.
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Photographs and video footage from the scene showed charred lorries, their frames buckled by blast waves and intense heat, and punctured by shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the handful of shrapnel we were passed for trips to Yvonne's sweetie shop, through the insistence that backache and blisters were par for the course in summer jobs.
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The Marines either side of me were hit with shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The explosion sent shrapnel flying through the sides of cars on the crowded highway.
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A small piece of shrapnel about the size of your thumbnail hit her in the back of her head.
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The request to move out comes because the power of the live missile with a warhead goes beyond the safety limits of the firing range and shrapnel could be blasted on to surrounding land.
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Letson used tweezers to remove the tiny fragment, which he identified as shrapnel like that from an M-79 not from a rifle bullet, and put a small bandage on Kerry's arm.
From On High
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The body of the car is sheathed with steel plating which is bullet proof against rifle or even shrapnel fire.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
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Other glazings are designed to resist explosions or impacts, preventing the window glass from becoming flying shrapnel.
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It sent shrapnel tearing through their home that ripped holes in clothes hanging inside a wardrobe.
Times, Sunday Times
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A couple of shrapnels were sent after them to keep them on the run.
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The attack, inside a government-run religious school, shattered windows and pockmarked the walls with shrapnel and splattered blood.
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On this occasion I went over the hillside farm, and the same thing happened; the Germans spent most of the night in heaving shrapnel and high-explosive gas shells into us, and at dawn they dropped one of the heaviest protective barrages for their own men that I have ever seen them start, but they were not quite on to the game our boys had played, because half an hour before, our men, with the companies that were supporting them, crept out into No Man's Land as close up to the German trenches as they could get with any degree of safety, so that when the Germans dropped their barrage on the front line there was nobody there but the wounded.
The Artillery at Passchendaele
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Modern categories of artillery fire solid shot, shrapnel, or explosive shells.
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It deploys submunition shrapnel at defined intervals, covering a wide lethal area against soft targets.
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The blasts sent debris and shrapnel flying in a wide radius, and hundreds of panicked school children ran for cover, engulfed by a cloud of smoke.
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All in all, it is enough to protect the occupants from an assault rifle or the shrapnel from a grenade.
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Detectives also found about 130 fragments of steel shrapnel lying around the blast scene.
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The helmuts sumtyms asploded creatin shrapnel, or tehy wiffstud the asploshun but directed the flying branes downward so yo had branes in yer shirt and in yer shorts and in yer socks and on yer shoes.
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He returned home with shrapnel wounds and tales of fighting U.S. military might with a rifle.
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British cannon bombarded Nxele's men with shrapnel shell and ensured their rout.
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They cited imagery of vehicles and medical supply boxes at the scene that had sustained extensive shrapnel damage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three of the soldiers that I knew as comrades were seriously wounded by shrapnel and gunfire.
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Almost immediately, Smith was wounded a second time by fragments of shrapnel.
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Before 1914 artillery shells had consisted mainly of shrapnel, whose airbursts were effective in mobile warfare.
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First into battle was Joe, who ran a head-on-head, slightly damaging his shield power from the enemy's explosion throwing shrapnel into it.
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Officers fresh from the trenches have told me that one can lose through sheer accustomedness all horror at the grim sights of warfare, all consciousness of ear-splitting noises, all interest in gas and shrapnel and bursting shells.
The Firefly of France
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At least one young woman was believed to be seriously wounded, while others collapsed, clutching bullet and shrapnel injuries, according to a pooled despatch from Nick Parker of The Sun.
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It was there in September 1944 that he was seriously wounded by shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rick curled his lip in disgust, slumped in a corner a body, torn to shreds by shrapnel and bullet wounds.
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A ringing twang interrupted the scene as a large piece of shrapnel ricocheted off a 500-pounder in the bomb bay, causing me to momentarily slam the door shut.
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Then you work out the size of the bomb, the type of explosives, the attendant shrapnel, the amount of building damage and the amount of flying glass.
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The deadliest was the 2004 Madrid train bombings, when shrapnel-filled bombs exploded, killing 191 people and wounding about 1,800.
Internet chatter up on bin Laden revenge attacks
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The dozers have plasma cutters which rip into the trees, slashing through their gargantuan bases in a spray of fierce light and burning wood-shrapnel.
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She said he told her that he pulled shrapnel from a wound on his abdomen after a grenade attack in
Heroes or Villains?
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He was flown home for treatment after molten shrapnel from a bomb ripped into his shoulder.
The Sun
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He moved on, leaping from shell-hole to shell-hole, using the muddy craters for cover from the flying shrapnel.
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It was there in September 1944 that he was seriously wounded by shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the shells fired by artillery guns were high explosive shells which could throw shrapnel over a wide distance in the trenches.
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A belated shrapnel-shot shrieked and burst, and everything grew still.
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Footage broadcast on Israeli media showed homes pockmarked with large shrapnel holes from where mortar shells exploded.
Hamas fires dozens of mortars at Israel
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Shrapnel is a weapon of mass destruction.
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In many cases, they would place two claymores next to each other to create an even larger fan of shrapnel.
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She saw her mother hit by shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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It sent shrapnel tearing through their home that ripped holes in clothes hanging inside a wardrobe.
Times, Sunday Times
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My husband was shot in the ribs and was also hit by shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The front panel of the medic van was peppered with shrapnel.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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But his injuries, which she described as shrapnel damage to the head, hand and foot, were more serious than he realized.
Theleafchronicle.com - Local News
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The front panel of the medic van was peppered with shrapnel.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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The shrapnel pierced his heart and lungs and he died almost instantly.
The Sun
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While in Iraq, Solorio had been shot once in the head by a sniper and hit in the hand by shrapnel from a roadside bomb.
Iraq glimpses for April 2007
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Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, McCauley had told his family about his special-operations ground raids in Afghanistan and of being struck by shrapnel from a "frag grenade" while in a ground conflict.
Brave Hearth
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Hardly did I walk two or three steps than four or five shrapnels burst near me.
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Young 14yr old Jiaozhou, from China, recently died when the gas canister inside his hydraulic chair exploded sending shrapnel into his bottom.
Your worst chair up the ass nightmare comes true! : about:blank
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He turned to look at the remains of his craft, floating amidst the wrecked and half eaten cargo containers and shrapnel from the shuttle.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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Bombs not only throw off shrapnel themselves, they create lots of deadly flying debris, including flying glass from broken windows, that can kill and maim.
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Justin wasn't allowed to tell them, for instance, that he'd been dinged by shrapnel from a fragmentation grenade that inexplicably went off 50 or 60 feet away from him.
Brave Hearth
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Ammunition from the burning aircraft on the flight deck starts cooking off, spraying the deck with shrapnel.
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Twelve people were hit by shrapnel in the attack.
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The fiesta opens with an explosion of rockets that look to Jake like shrapnel bursts; fiesta time is comparable to wartime, Bill says.
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Before 1914 artillery shells had consisted mainly of shrapnel, whose airbursts were effective in mobile warfare.
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All in all, it is enough to protect the occupants from an assault rifle or the shrapnel from a grenade.
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The slender piece of shrapnel was being isolated and encapsulated by what appeared to be the same kind of calcification process that isolates TB bacilli in the lungs.
The Eternal Mercenary
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Australia, where he had surgery to remove shrapnel from his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shrapnel weighs heavy in my pocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's not enough to just rub a bar of soap over your stupid gurning mug after you've noticed the big greasy patch you left on the window after falling asleep on the bus, and nicking some of your girlfriend's Oil of Olay only when the skin of your cheeks is falling away in thick necrotized chunks of shrapnel will only get you so far.
MetaFilter
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Not all the shrapnel will be removed, with doctors weighing up the risks of surgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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The energy overload feedback has electrocuted several that were not killed by shrapnel when the explosions occurred.
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Shell holes, shattered doors and broken windows, telegraph poles lying about, with their hairy whiskers twisting raggedly over the veldt, farmhouses burnt to cinders, hotels that had once been smart in their way now weevilled by shrapnel -- all these things surrounded the encamped division which so brilliantly had crossed the river.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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It deploys submunition shrapnel at defined intervals, covering a wide lethal area against soft targets.
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He lost his right eye after being hit by shrapnel from a Soviet rocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was a "curtain' of shrapnel shells, which moved ahead of advancing infantry.
Warfare in the Twentieth Century
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Shrapnel explodes into your face with every swing of the ax.
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He had been hit by shrapnel in his left side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sizzling chunks of shrapnel tore through plaster facades, leaving pockmarks on the interior wall.
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Shrapnel scars still pitted the walls and sandbags were stacked around every home.
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He was hit in the arm by flying shrapnel.
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He was hit in the arm by flying shrapnel.
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Red-hot cannon-balls, and shrapnel, langrage, chain-shot, and Greek-fire — these and the like were all fair warfare, and France might use them freely.
Springhaven
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He would promptly quit in vexation (crayons flying through the air like so much shrapnel) and would take incredible cajoling and persuasion to try again.
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Shot, gassed and riddled with shrapnel, Tu's father comes back from the Great War a cot-case who has to be nursed on the tribal lands by his wife Ma through his fits and moods until he finally succumbs to his injuries at the age of 39.
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In 2013, shrapnel tore through his leg in a rocket attack.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he arrived at Gallipoli he adopted a donkey which he called Abdul and for 40 days ferried soldiers who had been injured by flying shrapnel back to the beach for evacuation.
Undefined
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She looked at me oddly and I searched around and found twenty pence in shrapnel, which I swapped over.
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Two Kastani fighters were slashed with shrapnel from the explosion, and the nearest Alliance vessels were physically displaced by the shock wave.
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Photographs and video footage from the scene showed charred lorries, their frames buckled by blast waves and intense heat, and punctured by shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her face and body were peppered with shrapnel.
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A _rafale_ of shrapnel will of course destroy any infantry moving in the open, but intermittent shelling, although it appears to be terribly destructive, will not stop resolute troops determined to press forward.
With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917
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He has to be operated on for an injury to his face, he has shrapnel lodged in his jawbone and a sizeable wound to the left side of his face.
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At the U.S. military hospital on a wooded hilltop here, the cost of the Iraq war is measured in amputated limbs, burst eyeballs, shrapnel-torn bodies and shattered lives.
09/28/2004
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Then the valley was filled with high-explosive shells, varied by occasional shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you're close enough, the first sound is that of an earsplitting blast and the sounds that follow are of a rain of glass, shrapnel and other sharp things.
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The dozers have plasma cutters which rip into the trees, slashing through their gargantuan bases in a spray of fierce light and burning wood-shrapnel.
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She recoiled from the explosion and flying shrapnel.
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We were told there would be a romper room, but it seems there are only dangerous, mined areas and electrified chain fences where kids could easily injure themselves on flying shrapnel.
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The public has chosen to ignore the facts that shrapnel shell has become obsolete and that anti-aircraft guns fire high-explosive only
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Her father was recently hit by shrapnel and spent three days in hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shrapnel which had hit his leg was less than two inches from a major artery.
The Sun
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Wooden fragments exploded into shrapnel all around him.
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In an exchange of fire the attacker was wounded and a female bystander was injured by shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was wounded in both legs and severely peppered with shrapnel.
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As they turned to face their attacker, they were met with a spread of missiles that sent them flying back in tangled hunks of shrapnel.
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The hospital also received 39 people who were wounded in the explosion, most by shrapnel.
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The shrapnel tore the flesh off her right leg from her ankle to her thigh.
Times, Sunday Times
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High-explosive shells packed with shrapnel did even worse, causing nearly two-thirds of troops' deaths.
The Sun
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High-explosive shells packed with shrapnel did even worse, causing nearly two-thirds of troops' deaths.
The Sun
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The captain's colleagues received shrapnel wounds but their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
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Eugene was struck in the stomach with dozens of concrete nails that had been packed in the flowerpot as shrapnel.
Kill the Irishman
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The shrapnel shot through Tom's steel helmet and lodged in his temple during the epic fighting at Dunkirk.
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Bombs burst from above like rolling cracks of thunder as shrapnel rained down from the sky, expended from death black clouds.
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I still had 15 rounds in my ammunition belt and I was lucky that the shrapnel missed it.
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If you are like me and particularly nervous about explosions the label explicitly says not to cook the can without opening it, you do this in a crock pot so as to somewhat contain the potential shrapnel.
Foodgoat
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Steel furnishings and aluminum plane parts were torn into white-hot shrapnel.
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Even the captain himself worked on pressurized storage lockers around the perimeter of the hold had been damaged by shrapnel from the explosion.
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A piece of shrapnel had hit his cap badge and had penetrated the front of his skull.
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He was flown home for treatment after molten shrapnel from a bomb ripped into his shoulder.
The Sun
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And so, on 1 February, his arm was in plaster, the stumps of his torn-off fingers were bleeding and shrapnel was digging into his legs.
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The windshields of NASA vehicles parked outside the building were shattered by the panels, which Kennedy described as flying shrapnel.
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The shrapnel tore the flesh off her right leg from her ankle to her thigh.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were shrapnel pockmarks from bow to stern, and the main living area was just one enormous cavity of burnt wood, twisted metal and torn cables.
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Just days earlier he was peppered with shrapnel when a roadside bomb exploded.
The Sun
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There were shrapnel pockmarks from bow to stern, and the main living area was just one enormous cavity of burnt wood, twisted metal and torn cables.
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For the exchange of a handful of shrapnel, grilled free-range chicken with an expert light aïoli, or with a zappy salsa verde, will shoot down these chutes.
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Barnes slaps his meaty hand over the mouth of a soldier screaming from the searing pain of shrapnel and menacingly commands ‘Take the pain!’
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Shrapnel hit the armor plate under the cockpit, mangled the plating and destroyed the equipment mounted directly above.
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The line reflexively crouched in anticipation of the shower of shrapnel.
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The shrapnel shot through Tom's steel helmet and lodged in his temple during the epic fighting at Dunkirk.
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According to The Telegraph's Tim Butcher, headstones at Britain's Commonwealth war cemetery in Gaza City were not only "pockmarked" by shrapnel from Israeli artillery, but some were even destroyed during the Israeli "operation" in Beit Hanoun.
NO PEACE, NO PLACE FOR PALESTINE
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In an exchange of fire the attacker was wounded and a female bystander was injured by shrapnel.
Times, Sunday Times
