Sentence examples for grenades back from inspiring English sources

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Easy, he said — just leave your hand grenades back at the base.

"Lobbing grenades back and forth — that is not good enough," said Don Nickles, a former Republican senator from Oklahoma, who runs a lobbying firm whose client roster includes Medtronic, one of the nation's top medical device companies.

According to the complaint, Mr. Cibelli had admitted to law enforcement officers that he had brought the grenades back with him from Iraq, but, in a panic, threw them on the roof outside his bedroom window as officers arrived to search his home.

President Trump, not one to back down from a scrap, lobbed his own grenades back on Sunday, during an interview on Fox.

At this point, they only throw hand grenades back and forth over their virtual fences.

"With Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench lobbing wickedly bitchy verbal grenades back and forth, how could it not be?

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There was a partisan murmur until Cameron politely knocked the grenade back.

Such grenades have a fuse that detonates the explosive either on impact or after a brief (usually four-second) time delay that is long enough for the grenade to be accurately thrown but is too brief for enemy soldiers to toss the grenade back once it has landed among them.

While a roomful of male advisers also appeared stunned, she scooped up the paper plate fired at her husband and launched it like a grenade back at May-Bowles, a comedian, with an amazing right hook.

I threw a teargas grenade back to where it came from, before it affected people.

This action was to prevent the adversary from throwing the grenade back at me.

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