Sentence examples for on a grenade from inspiring English sources

Several co-workers warned Mr. Wingo against being "a martyr". One engineer, Donald Falletta, told him in a phone call that jumping on a grenade "when there ain't nobody else in the damn room don't save nobody". In a call six months later, Mr. Falletta added that he too believed that managers were being "told to lie" about the pace of progress.

Lipsky touches on some recent, controversial attempts at modernizing the academy — such as a ban on hazing and the promotion of "consideration of others" (which in the context of the Army could, in an "extreme instance," mean jumping on a grenade to save the lives of your fellow-soldiers) — but he is more effective as a chronicler of personality than of politics.

Three boys in faux-fluff top hats with painted nails circle around you and tell you that your body language is uptight and jumping on a grenade would help fix it.

Plane is allowed to land in Beirut after pilot says one hijacker has pulled the pin on a grenade.

who threw himself on a grenade".

Why would the regime just put it on a grenade here or a rocket launcher there?

Petty Officer Monsoor threw himself on top of a grenade to save others who were with him.

On Tuesday a grenade blew up on a city bus when a man tried to rob a passenger, killing them both.

On July 13, a grenade thrown at foreign tourists following the ancient Silk Road in Mansehra in northern Pakistan wounded nine Europeans.

Earlier on Monday, a grenade was lobbed from a passing car into a street close to the symbolic Independence Square in central Bujumbura.

On Saturday, a grenade was thrown in a bus in the coastal city of Mombasa leaving four people dead and another 15 wounded.