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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