Sentence examples for rock shrapnel from inspiring English sources

You may hit your fingers, and rock shrapnel can hit your eyes.

Shrapnel and rock ruptured outward from the blasts.

110 Kwevkepaya were trapped in the cave, when Brown ordered the soldiers to fire at the roof of the cave, causing rock fragments and lead shrapnel to rain down on the Guwevkabaya.

Allan protected her with a film camera as shrapnel and rocks fell around them.

Our experiments provide new insights by quantifying (1) the hazard associated with post-impact shrapnel from building and rock fragments; (2) the effect of impact obliquity on damage; and (3) the additional impact resistance buildings possess when claddings are struck in areas directly supported by framing components.

Seconds later a giant blast rocked the vehicle, blasting it with shrapnel.

A Jap machine gun, a Nambu, chattered from the flank and the air was thick with shrapnel, roiling, incandescent; the ground rocked with explosions.

Andre watched as the car got smaller in the distance, and Jeb scooped up a handful of gravel and ran down the hill, throwing rocks that scattered across the road like shrapnel and shouting: "You bum!

When a basketball-sized chunk of ice or rock plows into the F ring, it is pulverized and the shrapnel spreads out for kilometers.

The bomb, which rocked the area around the provincial directorate offices, spread shards of shrapnel glass and wood, wounding a number of civilians, a spokesman for the governor's office said.

On Sept. 16, 1920, just as the Trinity Church bells tolled the noon hour, a great explosion rocked the corner of Wall and Nassau -- a wagon filled with explosives and shrapnel went up, killing at least 36 people.