Examples of shrapnel in a Sentence

He has a piece of shrapnel in his leg. Shrapnel from the explosion wounded many people.

Recent Examples on the Web The earth heaved and branches snapped as shrapnel ripped through the forest. — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022 The two were waiting to launch an ambush on a Russian tank when shrapnel hit Mr. McCaffery in the face and collapsed a concrete block wall on Mr. Gray, injuring his leg, according to Twitter posts by an American journalist, Nolan Peterson. — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022 Except that his plastic visor had several cracks — from where shrapnel hit it. — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022 On his 20th mission over an air armaments factory in Germany he was shot down and wounded when shrapnel pierced his helmet. — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022 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 That was when Nunez was hurt, a shrapnel wound above his right knee, during the second volley of shots. — Brock Blasdell, The Arizona Republic, 17 Feb. 2022 For 70 years, John Kost has carried a metal shard below his right knee, shrapnel from a bomb blast suffered while serving with the U.S. Army in Korea in 1951. — Bob P. Brown, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2021 In one engagement Thursday and Friday in a forest north of the town of Slovyansk, a dozen Ukrainian soldiers were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds after a nearby Ukrainian artillery unit was outgunned by a Russian mortar crew. — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022 See More

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