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shrapnel sentence examples

  • We were bombed rather a lot, but i enjoyed collecting shrapnel.
  • A man was injured by shrapnel in high street, jarrow.
  • The blast ripped into the sides of buildings turning windows into blizzards of deadly shrapnel.
  • Shrapnel wounds to his left shoulder.
  • It was a piece of mortar shrapnel, enough to just penetrate the skin and cause me some pain.
  • Shrapnel from shells, grenades or rockets, and all but two were soldiers.
  • He persisted in sending shrapnel - a useless weapon in trench warfare.
  • Men watched their fellows being blown apart or dreadfully wounded by shrapnel.
  • Shrapnel shell.
  • Shrapnel from a bomb that fell on the cathedral.
  • By the time cindy's year in iraq was up, she had shrapnel in her arm.
  • Thinking he had been hit by shrapnel i went over.
  • Shrapnel bombs.
  • Yesterday they were content to rediscover the art of holding leads by beating leeds in a match not short of flying shrapnel.
  • During the night a twenty six year old man was killed by shrapnel from a grenade - the first death of the events.
  • Shrapnel balls about 2cm in diameter.
  • Shrapnel lodged in his brain.
  • A house in south shields was slightly damaged by shrapnel.
  • Shrapnel damage to the bridge can still be seen.
  • Shrapnel bullet.

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