shrapnel

IPA: ʃrˈæpnʌɫ

noun

  • (military, historical) An anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
  • (military, historical) The bullets from the aforementioned type of artillery shell.
  • (military) Shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb or landmine.
  • (slang) Loose change.
  • Debris.
  • A surname
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Examples of "shrapnel" in Sentences

  • A shrapnel wound is more plausible.
  • The source of the shrapnel is unclear.
  • It protected against shrapnel and cuts.
  • SID and forensics are looking for shrapnel.
  • It survived with shrapnel damage to the tail.
  • Shrapnel removed and appl bacitracin dressing.
  • Catherwood was injured in the knee by shrapnel.
  • Shrapnel is not fragmentation, that's the point.
  • The blast raked the fuselage with flying shrapnel.
  • The armored car is said to have been hit by shrapnel from the explosion.
  • The shrapnel will ricochet and it is possible for suicide with this weapon.
  • She said he told her that he pulled shrapnel from a wound on his abdomen after a grenade attack in
  • 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.
  • But his injuries, which she described as shrapnel damage to the head, hand and foot, were more serious than he realized.
  • He turned to look at the remains of his craft, floating amidst the wrecked and half eaten cargo containers and shrapnel from the shuttle.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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