shrapnel
Military.
a hollow projectile containing bullets or the like and a bursting charge, designed to explode before reaching the target, and to set free a shower of missiles.
such projectiles collectively.
shell fragments.
Origin of shrapnel
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How to use shrapnel in a sentence
If shrapnel or tank fire pierced the plastic water tank on the roof of the apartment building, we would have water to drink and cook with for a few days.
I've Tried to Keep My Kids Safe Through 3 Bombardments of Gaza. It's Never Been Like This Before | Fadi Abu Shammala | May 20, 2021 | TimeOther versions blew up during crash landings, and one exploded just before touching down — a series of Earth-shattering fireballs that turned the stainless-steel spacecraft into shrapnel.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX lands Starship spacecraft in first full successful test flight | Christian Davenport | May 5, 2021 | Washington PostOne deputy was shot dead, and a second was badly wounded by bomb shrapnel to his face and neck.
“I Felt Hate More Than Anything”: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War | by Gisela Pérez de Acha, Kathryn Hurd and Ellie Lightfoot, Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program | April 13, 2021 | ProPublicaAfter-effect analysis can let engineers know how much of the case was burnt in the blast, how much launched outward as shrapnel, and what sort of damage the blast caused.
The Army’s new tool for analyzing bomb shrapnel could lead to better body armor | Kelsey D. Atherton | March 3, 2021 | Popular-SciencePresently, classifying debris and shrapnel from deliberately set explosions is a massive, labor-intensive process.
The Army’s new tool for analyzing bomb shrapnel could lead to better body armor | Kelsey D. Atherton | March 3, 2021 | Popular-Science
Surrounded by his family under a shrapnel-damaged tin roof, he says he has lived in Al Shajaya all his life.
Hamas Claims ‘Victory’ Amid the Rubble of Gaza | Jesse Rosenfeld | August 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn this way the missile does not need pinpoint accuracy: widely spread supersonic shrapnel from the warhead is deadly.
MH17 Is the World’s First Open-Source Air Crash Investigation | Clive Irving | July 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn theory, someone could be relatively close to the explosion and survive since the shrapnel would zip by harmlessly overhead.
Dodging Rockets in Afghanistan as the Taliban’s Fighting Season Begins | Nick Willard | May 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA couple weeks ago, I found a pea-sized shard of shrapnel from a past attack in a parking lot.
Dodging Rockets in Afghanistan as the Taliban’s Fighting Season Begins | Nick Willard | May 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe new polio threat is a major and predictable consequence of war, just like shrapnel injuries and broken families.
U.N. Calls Middle East Polio Outbreak ‘Greatest Polio Challenge in History’ | Kent Sepkowitz | April 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYesterday and to-day we have fired, for us, a terrible lot of shells (1,800 shrapnel) but never was shot better spent.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThe flower of the insurgent army was there, well armed and supplied with artillery and shrapnel shell.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanAs that big oblong crowd of Turks showed their left flank to Baikie's nine batteries they were swept in enfilade by shrapnel.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonYou could see the shrapnel bursting on the ground, and perhaps setting fire to something or other.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieOn our way we had a near shave, for out of the darkness whizzed a shrapnel shell.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton Laurie
British Dictionary definitions for shrapnel
/ (ˈʃræpnəl) /
a projectile containing a number of small pellets or bullets exploded before impact
such projectiles collectively
fragments from this or any other type of shell
Origin of shrapnel
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