How to Use shrapnel in a Sentence

shrapnel

noun

• He has a piece of shrapnel in his leg.
• Shrapnel from the explosion wounded many people.
• Sam Fuentes was shot in the leg and struck in the face with shrapnel during the massacre.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
• The German shelling would shake a blizzard of snow and shrapnel from the trees.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• Dirt and shrapnel filled the air as the rest of team Raven scrambled for cover.
  — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
• Her neck still has a shrapnel scar from the third day of the war, when her apartment was hit.
  — Hanna Arhirova and Lori Hinnant, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
• The force of the blast hurled pieces of glass and shrapnel that were embedded in Collins Rudolph’s face.
  — Kara Nelson, CNN, 15 Sep. 2023
• Here is a store where a man was killed by a piece of shrapnel that happened to fly in.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Times reports one deputy was wounded in the face by shrapnel.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2022
• Yonathan’s right leg was hit with shrapnel and the toes are still broken.
  — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• The blast sent shrapnel through one of the jet’s windows and the victim was partially sucked out of the plane.
  — Jay Blackman, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
• The wards filled with girls shot in the stomach and children writhing from burning shrapnel.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• One shard of shrapnel pierced his back while another drilled through the flesh of his arm and into the bone.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• One deputy was injured when he was hit in the face with shrapnel, Dicus said.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• The girls, aged 9 and 14, were mildly injured in the incident by what the MDA called shrapnel.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 16 July 2023
• He has been concussed, and carries pieces of shrapnel in his body.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
• The father even kept the shrapnel pieces from an airstrike the Russians delivered then.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• The screams of patients fill the hallways as dressings are changed and shrapnel removed.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• Her body is riddled with bullet hole scars and specks of shrapnel.
  — Cheri Mossburg, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• The two brothers were working in the Negev desert in southern Israel and were hit by shrapnel.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 14 May 2023
• The shell exploded, sending a piece of shrapnel that took off his arm at the shoulder and grazed his chest.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The wing appeared to have little or no shrapnel damage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
• Turnipseed still has shrapnel in her body from the shooting, which will likely remain in her body for the rest of her life, Scharg said.
  — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2022
• But a tank shell exploded near me, and I was wounded by shrapnel in the limbs, head, neck and stomach.
  — Juliet Butler, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• Lumberjack crawled into a crater, but the shrapnel from a mortar went through the soil and pierced his shoulder.
  — Samantha Schmidt and Serhii Korolchuk, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
• The driver also had chest and shoulder cuts that appeared to be caused by shrapnel, the complaint said.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
• Half a dozen mortar strikes in quick succession raised cones of lethal shrapnel and dirt.
  — Carlotta Gall Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• Mykhaylo had just taken a step back from the bedroom window, and shrapnel peppered the walls around him.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
• Maksym was killed in fighting, likely from shrapnel or a bullet that hit his neck.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• Local officials said some of the victims buried at the site had been shot and many of them showed signs of injury from shrapnel.
  — Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024