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• Pressure built beneath the plug in the caldera, eventually resulting in a catastrophic explosion of pyroclastic shrapnel and ash.From the entry plug
• While here last night we caught a packet, and some shrapnel came into our house here.1956, George Rock, The History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955, page 436. From the entry catch a packet
• Inside the shrapnel shell was an iron bar with a flattened, broad nose.1930, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades, Grosset & Dunlap, page 20. From the entry candlestick
• Private Wyer, who was diligently cleaning his shrapnel barrel with a misknit helmet, looked up warningly.1918, The Judge - Volume 74. From the entry misknit
• Fifteen of those people had died of natural causes, the rest from gunshot wounds, including point-blank shots, or from shrapnel.2022 April 3, Carlotta Gall, Andrew E. Kramer, “In a Kyiv suburb,‘they shot everyone they saw’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry point-blank
• Excellent documentation of meteorite fragment locations and characteristics has generated a detailed distribution map of both shrapnel and regmaglypted meteorite types.2015, JD Newman, “Mineralogy, petrology, and distribution of meteorites at the Whitecourt crater, Alberta, Canada”, in Meteoritics &…. From the entry regmaglypted
• For the rolling barrage, one battery in each battalion fired low, bursting shrapnel instead of the standard high explosive.2014, Edward G. Lengel, A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 350. From the entry barrage
• Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN. From the entry skeeter
• The Kinmenese would collect the shrapnel and make knives; the metal was strong and sharp enough to cut through almost anything.2010, Mei-Ling Hopgood, Lucky Girl, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry Kinmenese
• The US "pineapple" grenade's iron outer surface was waffled to aid its fragmentation into jagged shrapnel when it exploded.2001, Randy Holderfield, Michael J. Varhola, D-Day: The Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944, page 73. From the entry waffled
• As Bourne came out, he could see shells exploding by the dump, with some shrapnel bursting, woolly-bears they called them, overhead.1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 236. From the entry woolly bear
• It was pointed out that troops would not always remain in the open to be whiffed out of existence by shrapnel.1916 January, Pousse Cailloux, “75’s”, in Blackwood’s Magazine, American edition, volume CXCIX, number MCCIII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard…. From the entry whiff
• This was a shrapnel shell used by the Austrians in the mountains with a nose-cap which went on after the burst and exploded on contact.1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 107. From the entry nose cap

Meaning of shrapnel

1. noun An anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
2. noun The bullets or balls from the aforementioned type of artillery shell.
3. noun Any shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell, bomb, or landmine.

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How do you use shrapnel in a sentence?

Shrapnel is used as a noun. For example: “The dog ate my sandwich, and there was shrapnel all over the place from him tearing open the bag.”

What is a short sentence with shrapnel?

“Inside the shrapnel shell was an iron bar with a flattened, broad nose.”

What does shrapnel mean?

Shrapnel means an anti-personnel artillery shell used in World War I which carries a large number of individual bullets or balls close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.