How to Use grenade in a Sentence

grenade

noun
  • And the whole movie just sort of throws a grenade on that in a way.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2021
  • At the front door was a bag of grenades, abandoned by Hamas.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Fragments of the grenade were pulled from Mr. Page’s face.
    Matt Schudel, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Who cares that DeLuca is in the back seat and there's a grenade in her purse?
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • But a grenade fragment had left him with his first wound of the night.
    Brad Lendon, CNN, 21 May 2021
  • No, Brees is not going to try his luck with the live grenade.
    Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The Capitol shook with the force of percussion grenades, and smoke rose above the crowd.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • There was a grenade, and the biggest choice of his life — to be made in an instant.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • And this will give players a new grenade that is unique to the player's class.
    Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2024
  • Shoppers can grab a Chemex pour-over or a hand grenade mug.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Army trainees learn basic skills such as how to march, shoot guns and throw a grenade.
    Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Just this month, a grenade was left at the gate of his house, according to his lawyer.
    Martha Raddatz, ABC News, 24 June 2021
  • At the eighth hole, golfers threw a rubber hand grenade and played their ball from where the grenade landed.
    Su Bacon, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2024
  • Peck added that flashbang grenades were also used against the crowd.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The item was determined to be a smoke grenade and posed no threat, police said.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In April, a Highland Park spokesperson said an old hand grenade was found at the bottom of the bluff April 6.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • River’s been beaten, stun-gunned, tied up, left for dead, and blown up with a grenade.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 18 May 2024
  • His weapon of choice is a firework fashioned into a sort of grenade.
    New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Bombing is simply a matter of tilting the drone so the grenade rolls out.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • In the heavy slot, zero grenade launchers or machine guns, and just one sword.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Many of the drones used in the conflict are off-the shelf-models that have been customized to carry grenades.
    Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Sentry Increased the number of grenade hits to kill a Sentry from 1 to 2.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • The Army describes the type of device the diver found as a riot control hand grenade.
    Michelle Watson, CNN, 4 June 2023
  • The Kalashnikov burger comes with mayo; the grenade with onion rings; the PK machine gun with tomatoes.
    New York Times, 21 June 2022
  • True to form, Dwight overreacts and attempts to rid the office of lice with a bug bomb grenade.
    Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2021
  • It is equipped with a 30 mm gun, a machine gun and/or a grenade launcher, and can travel up to 60 miles per hour.
    Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023
  • And Antwerp has been rocked by shootings and grenade explosions linked to drug gangs.
    New York Times, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Driving the Porsche 964 Turbo, famed for its role in the movie Bad Boys, is like playing hacky sack with a hand grenade.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 2 July 2021
  • But on this day a grenade struck his bunker, burying the 27-year-old private beneath the rubble.
    Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
  • The Azerbaijanis have been fighting off and on for more than 30 years with Armenia, another ex-Soviet state a grenade toss to the west, but tonight the war can wait.
    Tim Neville, Outside Online, 25 Nov. 2024

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