[
US
/ˈʃɹæpnəɫ/
]
[ UK /ʃɹˈæpnəl/ ]
[ UK /ʃɹˈæpnəl/ ]
NOUN
- shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight
How To Use shrapnel In A Sentence
- To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me. 1997: What I Wanted
- In 2013, shrapnel tore through his leg in a rocket attack. Times, Sunday Times
- The door staircase suddenly snapped off the foundation and soared up into the clouds, suddenly being torn apart by flying shrapnel of glass and metal.
- He reviewed pages of typed medical records and scribbled notes that charted with clinical precision each sailors fatal wounds: Blast injury to brain, Multiple bullet and shrapnel wounds, Exsanguination from complete transection of body. The Attack on the Liberty
- A ringing twang interrupted the scene as a large piece of shrapnel ricocheted off a 500 - pounder in the bomb bay, causing me to momentarily slam the door shut.
- The bomb exploded, sending shrapnel whistling through the trees.
- And, as if the moment couldn't turn any more unfortunate, one of these shadow spikes struck the car's fuel tank, rupturing it and causing the yellow cab to explode into shrapnel and into flames.
- They constantly shell with shrapnel the third line on the chance of bagging our reinforcements to the first line. Times, Sunday Times
- He was wounded by shrapnel in March 1916, trepanned, and died of Spanish flu in November 1918. The Times Literary Supplement
- Then the valley was filled with high-explosive shells, varied by occasional shrapnel. Times, Sunday Times