rifle grenade

How to use rifle grenade in a sentence

• In this sector life in the trenches was made more uncertain than ever by the introduction of the rifle grenade by the Germans.

  The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 | Frederick William Bewsher

• As we were tying him up—he had been wounded in eight places by a rifle grenade—he signed to me and I stooped over him.

  Mud and Khaki | Vernon Bartlett

• As a fifth class there was a combination hand and rifle grenade, a British device adopted in our program.

  America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict Crowell

• The rifle grenade fits in a holder at the muzzle of an ordinary service rifle.

  America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict Crowell

• Any man within 75 yards of an exploding rifle grenade is likely to be wounded or killed.

  America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict Crowell