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.
• His hands got the brunt of the blast and the flying shrapnel.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
• One was wounded in the chest and the other got shrapnel in the eye and in the head.
  — Matt Bradley, NBC News, 19 May 2022
• Sam Fuentes was shot in the leg and struck in the face with shrapnel during the massacre.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2022
• Leopold, who lives in Texas, keeps a piece of shrapnel from the bomb on his desk.
  — Thomas Curwen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Maksim was so close that shrapnel from the first RPG round struck the back of his skull.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2022
• Blood smears the stairwell floor and the shards of glass strewn about while shrapnel pockmarks the walls.
  — Elena Becatoros, ajc, 31 May 2022
• 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
• The route out was fraught with risk: Friends who tried to flee shared tales of shelling and cars hit by shrapnel.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2022
• He was shot in both legs a total of five times and hit with shrapnel.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
• The earth heaved and branches snapped as shrapnel ripped through the forest.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
• Yonathan’s right leg was hit with shrapnel and the toes are still broken.
  — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• Alice Hawthorne, 44, was in the park with her daughter at the time and was killed by shrapnel.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 27 July 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
• Pieces of shrapnel hit him in his calf, left eye and upper thigh.
  — Megan Jones, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2021
• Walls that had been a crisp white color have smoke stains and holes from shrapnel.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
• The wards filled with girls shot in the stomach and children writhing from burning shrapnel.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• The shrapnel damaged a lot; our neighbor’s fence…; a tree, our fence.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• 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
• Three weeks later, on March 17th, Makhach was hit by shrapnel in the back of the head near the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
• As of this writing, one Palestinian in the West Bank was killed and two Israelis were injured in falling shrapnel.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
• Digging Deeper On taking a position, the first thing a foot soldier does is use their entrenching tool to dig a shell scrape, a hole deep enough to hide in and protect against direct fire and shrapnel.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024