Sentence examples for shrapnel pieces from inspiring English sources

He lost his left hand to bullet wounds and was repeatedly hit by shrapnel – pieces of which surfaced decades later after another operation.

This past weekend, a Grad rocket fired from northern Gaza struck the backyard of a Netivot home on Friday evening, October 12, a little after 7 30 p.m., sending deep shrapnel pieces into the bedroom walls of a young child, who was thankfully not in his room at the time of the attack.

A brain contusion has left him partly paralyzed on his left side, and last winter he developed bumps on his body that doctors call organic shrapnel -- pieces of the bomber's body embedded in his.

Shrapnel, some pieces weighing 10 pounds, was found in a parking lot about 100 yards away, Chief Bill Herthneck of the Fire Department said.

Slow speed allows the saw to keep from overheating the blade and causing shrapnel-like pieces to be tossed into the air from a broken blade.

It wasn't nearby, perhaps 50 or more yards away but somehow almost the same second I heard it I was hit with a piece of shrapnel that blew the right side of my face to pieces.

"You have 500 pieces of shrapnel".

Two pieces of shrapnel stayed in his back.

12 pieces of shrapnel hit my legs and my hand".

To this day, he carries pieces of shrapnel, debris and even twigs under his scarred skin.

Pieces of shrapnel were flying in the air and I couldn't go anywhere.