How to Use shrapnel in a Sentence

shrapnel

noun
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  • He has a piece of shrapnel in his leg.
  • Shrapnel from the explosion wounded many people.
  • His hands got the brunt of the blast and the flying shrapnel.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • One was wounded in the chest and the other got shrapnel in the eye and in the head.
    — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 19 May 2022
  • Sam Fuentes was shot in the leg and struck in the face with shrapnel during the massacre.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The German shelling would shake a blizzard of snow and shrapnel from the trees.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Dirt and shrapnel filled the air as the rest of team Raven scrambled for cover.
    — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
  • Her neck still has a shrapnel scar from the third day of the war, when her apartment was hit.
    — Hanna Arhirova and Lori Hinnant, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • The force of the blast hurled pieces of glass and shrapnel that were embedded in Collins Rudolph’s face.
    — Kara Nelson, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Maksim was so close that shrapnel from the first RPG round struck the back of his skull.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Blood smears the stairwell floor and the shards of glass strewn about while shrapnel pockmarks the walls.
    — Elena Becatoros, ajc, 31 May 2022
  • Here is a store where a man was killed by a piece of shrapnel that happened to fly in.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The Times reports one deputy was wounded in the face by shrapnel.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The route out was fraught with risk: Friends who tried to flee shared tales of shelling and cars hit by shrapnel.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2022
  • He was shot in both legs a total of five times and hit with shrapnel.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • The earth heaved and branches snapped as shrapnel ripped through the forest.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
  • Yonathan’s right leg was hit with shrapnel and the toes are still broken.
    — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Alice Hawthorne, 44, was in the park with her daughter at the time and was killed by shrapnel.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
  • The blast sent shrapnel through one of the jet’s windows and the victim was partially sucked out of the plane.
    — Jay Blackman, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Walls that had been a crisp white color have smoke stains and holes from shrapnel.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The wards filled with girls shot in the stomach and children writhing from burning shrapnel.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The shrapnel damaged a lot; our neighbor’s fence…; a tree, our fence.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 13 May 2022
  • One shard of shrapnel pierced his back while another drilled through the flesh of his arm and into the bone.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • One deputy was injured when he was hit in the face with shrapnel, Dicus said.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The girls, aged 9 and 14, were mildly injured in the incident by what the MDA called shrapnel.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 16 July 2023
  • Three weeks later, on March 17th, Makhach was hit by shrapnel in the back of the head near the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
  • One of them was struck by shrapnel and had to be treated at the hospital.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 6 June 2024
  • That’s the shrapnel that happens when someone goes down like that.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
  • Colin lost his leg to a shark while surfing in Hawaii; Sydney nearly bled out after shrapnel from the Boston Marathon bombing pierced her femoral artery.
    — Longreads, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The group's statement follows Israeli reports of missiles fired at the area and at least one person injured by shrapnel in central Israel.
    — NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024

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