Sentence examples similar to shrapnel burst from inspiring English sources

Shrapnel bursts over them, shells explode sending up great swirling clouds of dust.

He is known not for a single grand thesis but for a shrapnel-burst of impressionistic coinages — "anthropotechnics," "negative gynecology," "co-immunism" — that occasionally suggest the lurking presence of some larger system.

"Tragically one night in September 1917 when in the morass in the Ypres Salient a German shrapnel shell burst over head badly wounding Harry and killing three of his closest friends.

Maffitt related that "one XI inch shell from the Oneida passed through the coal bunkers on the port side, struck the port forward boiler, took off one man's head as it passed on the berth deck, wounding nine men … During all this time, shell and shrapnel were bursting over us and all around us … striking the hull and the spars at almost every discharge".

Time fuzes, designed to burst shrapnel shell over ground forces at a particular point in the shell's trajectory, were gradually refined.

As they moved forward, Turkish artillery targeted them with air burst shrapnel shells, which dispersed the companies.

Both Adel and his daughter were killed by shrapnel that came bursting through the walls.

The explosion creates a burst of shrapnel that is lethal within a radius of several metres (exact details are classified).

And then, there's a burst of shrapnel.

There was more to come in this vein, along with a few murmuring ballads, a brief gospel excursion and an outlying burst of atonal shrapnel.

Instead of dialogue, Age of Ultron has random remarks and jargon that come at you like bursts of verbal shrapnel.