Word Finder - shrapnel

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An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.

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A collective term for shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb or landmine.

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Loose change.

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Debris.

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The dog ate my sandwich, and there was shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.

Large pieces of shrapnel were stuck inside.

The lenses have been known to stop flying shrapnel from entering the eyes of our troops.

By the time Cindy's year in Iraq was up, she had shrapnel in her arm.

Yesterday they were content to rediscover the art of holding leads by beating Leeds in a match not short of flying shrapnel.

A man was injured by shrapnel in High Street, Jarrow.

Men watched their fellows being blown apart or dreadfully wounded by shrapnel.

Thinking he had been hit by shrapnel I went over.

During the brief reprieve, the basement had filled with people seeking shelter, some of whom were wounded from bomb shrapnel.

We were bombed rather a lot, but I enjoyed collecting shrapnel.

He persisted in sending shrapnel - a useless weapon in trench warfare.

During the night a twenty six year old man was killed by shrapnel from a grenade - the first death of the events.

A house in South Shields was slightly damaged by shrapnel.

The blast ripped into the sides of buildings turning windows into blizzards of deadly shrapnel.

It was a piece of mortar shrapnel, enough to just penetrate the skin and cause me some pain.

Thirty-six guns swept the ground with shrapnel.

The South African expert said the other projectiles that hit Cardoso were probably shrapnel from the car itself.

A fellow Australian journalist, Eric Campbell, suffered minor shrapnel wounds in the blast.

They are not, however, " shrapnel " - they are " shell splinters.

By the time Cindy 's year in Iraq was up, she had shrapnel in her arm.

And Ken Stott 's Philippe lapses regularly into unconsciousness due to shrapnel lodged in his brain.

He had received shrapnel wounds to his left shoulder.

They dropped 172 shells, many of which hit their target, plus several thousand shrapnel bombs.

Artillery shell filled with shrapnel balls about 2cm in diameter.

Shrapnel damage to the bridge can still be seen.

General Findlay, hit on the head by shrapnel bullet.

Seven patients were injured by shrapnel from shells, grenades or rockets, and all but two were soldiers.

The King was shown a piece of shrapnel from a bomb that fell on the Cathedral.

S he was not a blue plastic swizzle stick nor a piece of shrapnel.

Also, he had been in Vietnam and had a hand grenade explode near him, leaving him with shrapnel in his pancreas.

The "Intrepid" astern had come under heavy shrapnel fire from the guns as she approached the mole, but after rounding it escaped their attention.

She came under shrapnel fire off the mole, and as she rounded it a star shell showed up the "Intrepid" heading for the canal and the "Thetis" aground.