Sentence examples for flying shrapnel from inspiring English sources

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The 14-year-old had been running home when he was cut down by flying shrapnel.

The commanding officer, however, maintained that the wound was the result of flying shrapnel.

A pregnant woman was among those who narrowly escaped flying shrapnel.

The next shell landed in the courtyard, hitting her with flying shrapnel and also injuring five-year-old Ahmed.

He was injured whilst desperately trying to build a wall of stones around himself as protection from the flying shrapnel.

Many of the curious were hit by flying shrapnel and debris from the second, more powerful blast.

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There was so much firing and so much stuff flying, bricks, shrapnel, bullets.

In March 1968, the squad hit a tripwire in the jungle that set off a huge mine, sending body parts flying and shrapnel into Chuck Hagel's chest.

On Sept. 16, 1920, as lunchtime crowds filled the intersection of Wall and Broad Streets, 100 pounds of TNT on a horse-drawn wagon exploded outside the J. P. Morgan & Company offices, sending fragmented lead sash weights flying as shrapnel.

The resulting detonation threw Moon off his drum riser and his arm was cut by flying cymbal shrapnel.

At the end of the day though, I'm really more of a stay-at-home mom than anything else, uniformed in comfy Croc flip-flops and yoga pants stained by that morning's flying breakfast shrapnel.

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