Shrapnel Sentence Examples

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  • Large pieces of shrapnel were stuck inside.

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  • The lenses have been known to stop flying shrapnel from entering the eyes of our troops.

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  • By the time Cindy's year in Iraq was up, she had shrapnel in her arm.

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  • Yesterday they were content to rediscover the art of holding leads by beating Leeds in a match not short of flying shrapnel.

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  • A man was injured by shrapnel in High Street, Jarrow.

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  • Men watched their fellows being blown apart or dreadfully wounded by shrapnel.

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  • Thinking he had been hit by shrapnel I went over.

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  • During the brief reprieve, the basement had filled with people seeking shelter, some of whom were wounded from bomb shrapnel.

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  • We were bombed rather a lot, but I enjoyed collecting shrapnel.

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  • He persisted in sending shrapnel - a useless weapon in trench warfare.

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  • During the night a twenty six year old man was killed by shrapnel from a grenade - the first death of the events.

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  • A house in South Shields was slightly damaged by shrapnel.

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  • The blast ripped into the sides of buildings turning windows into blizzards of deadly shrapnel.

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  • It was a piece of mortar shrapnel, enough to just penetrate the skin and cause me some pain.

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  • Thirty-six guns swept the ground with shrapnel.

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  • The South African expert said the other projectiles that hit Cardoso were probably shrapnel from the car itself.

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  • A fellow Australian journalist, Eric Campbell, suffered minor shrapnel wounds in the blast.

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  • They are not, however, " shrapnel " - they are " shell splinters.

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  • By the time Cindy 's year in Iraq was up, she had shrapnel in her arm.

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  • And Ken Stott 's Philippe lapses regularly into unconsciousness due to shrapnel lodged in his brain.

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  • He had received shrapnel wounds to his left shoulder.

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  • They dropped 172 shells, many of which hit their target, plus several thousand shrapnel bombs.

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  • Artillery shell filled with shrapnel balls about 2cm in diameter.

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  • Shrapnel damage to the bridge can still be seen.

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  • General Findlay, hit on the head by shrapnel bullet.

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  • Seven patients were injured by shrapnel from shells, grenades or rockets, and all but two were soldiers.

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  • The King was shown a piece of shrapnel from a bomb that fell on the Cathedral.

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  • S he was not a blue plastic swizzle stick nor a piece of shrapnel.

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  • Also, he had been in Vietnam and had a hand grenade explode near him, leaving him with shrapnel in his pancreas.

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  • The "Intrepid" astern had come under heavy shrapnel fire from the guns as she approached the mole, but after rounding it escaped their attention.

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  • She came under shrapnel fire off the mole, and as she rounded it a star shell showed up the "Intrepid" heading for the canal and the "Thetis" aground.

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