How to Use flash-bang in a Sentence

flash-bang

noun

• Comeaux said the flash-bang was effective.
  — Chase Rogers, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
• In the video, agents are seen approaching the home and setting off a flash-bang.
  — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
• The streets still looked like a war zone, with flash-bangs detonating and clouds of tear gas in the air.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
• Tear gas drifted through the air, punctuated by the sound of flash-bang grenades.
  — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
• Some folks get caught up in the glory, others marvel at the flash-bang technologies.
  — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
• Special operations forces threw flash-bangs into the area where they were found.
  — CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
• At some protests, agents deployed flash-bangs and pepper balls and protesters threw rocks and bottles.
  — Seamus Bozeman, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
• As the confrontation escalated, agents deployed a flash-bang device while crowds threw bricks and paint cans from rooftops.
  — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025
• Federal agents began unleashing rubber bullets, flash-bangs, and tear gas on the crowd.
  — Emily Witt, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
• Officers set off tear gas and flash-bang grenades to move the crowd, including Garza, down J Street.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
• Federal officers wielded batons and deployed flash-bang devices against the crowd.
  — Jack Brook, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2026
• Civilized nations don’t use armored trucks and flash-bangs to manage visa overstays or a lack of permission for residence.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
• Federal agents used flash-bangs and tear gas to disperse crowds, with some hitting demonstrators, as well as protesters setting fire to self-driving cars.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
• The mayor described the protests as peaceful and criticized federal officers’ use of pepper balls, flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets.
  — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026
• Police used at least one flash-bang grenade to clear a handful of demonstrators from the entrance as CBP vehicles drove onto the base.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
• Officers called for flash-bang devices — diversionary explosives that create a loud noise and bright flash meant to disorient — to subdue the animals, the footage shows.
  — Chase Rogers, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
• The mayor characterized the protests as peaceful, as federal officers also used pepper balls, flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets against the demonstrators.
  — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
• Suarez testified that agents found bullet casings on a mattress and on the floor, along with three boxes of ammunition and a flash-bang device, which can temporarily disorient people with a loud blast and bright flash.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
• Police used at least one flash-bang grenade to disperse demonstrators blocking the entrance as CBP vehicles entered the facility.
  — Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
• At $15,000 per box of six drones, and an additional monthly service charge per student, the drones are equipped with nonlethal weaponry, including flash-bangs and pepper spray guns.
  — Emily Greene-Colozzi, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
• The film is largely forgotten today, a minor effort awkwardly lodged between the grit of New Hollywood, on one side, and the schlocky flash-bang blockbusters of the eighties, on the other.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
• On Wednesday night, an agent reportedly threw flash-bang grenades and tear gas near a car filled with children, causing airbags to deploy, three minors to be hospitalized, and an infant who was in the car to momentarily stop breathing, the child’s mother said.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026
• As Miles manages to lift up Lily and get her out of there, MPKs start hurling flash-bangs, destroying the Ed Baldwin shrine and shooting a couple of protesters in the process.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
• Mesloh, a former police officer, researched crowd-control munitions — grenades, flash-bangs, Tasers — for seven years before 2010 when funding was rescinded for such research.
  — Minneapolis Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
• Among them were bills to restrict the use of flash-bang grenades and explosive breaching charges for crowd control and for immigration enforcement and a bill prohibiting ICE agents from arresting people on their way to a court proceeding.
  — Andrew Graham april 15, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
• After a mostly peaceful rally, demonstrators clashed with police, with officers firing rubber bullets, deploying flash-bangs and using tear gas on crowds after people threw rocks, bricks, bottles and commercial-grade fireworks at law enforcement.
  — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
• The New Yorker staff writer Emily Witt was reporting near the scene, where protesters quickly gathered to confront ICE agents, and were met with tear gas and flash-bang devices.
  — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
• On the ground in Los Angeles, ICE agents and other local law enforcement fired a range of less-lethal weapons at protesters, such as pepper balls, hard foam rounds or canisters delivering flash-bang grenades and tear gas.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
• Campbell also pointed out that many law enforcement experts, including the Police Executive Research Forum, say the use of flash-bangs on demonstrators is usually counterproductive.
  — Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
• Moments after being struck directly by a flash-bang in an encounter with federal agents in Minneapolis, a protester showed CNN’s Ryan Young where shrapnel from the flash-bang became embedded into her knee.
  — Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026