Sentence examples for small shrapnel from inspiring English sources

Other patients came and went, with wounds that varied from small shrapnel punctures to multiple amputations.

However, some air-to-air missiles also have fragmentation warheads which spray small shrapnel when they detonate close to a target.

Mr. Hesselman, in an interview long before the name of No Gun Ri was widely known, had told The A.P. that he had a small shrapnel wound and declined to be evacuated.

Her mother, who was also covered with small shrapnel wounds, described what had happened.

Other sites had smaller shrapnel or non-UXO related scrap instead, and a few were essentially empty.

The targets buried in 216 cells—some of which are empty include unexploded mortar shells, mortar explosion byproducts like base plates and partial mortars (i.e., stretched-out half-shells), smaller shrapnel, and unrelated metallic clutter; some examples appear in Figure 1.

Others sought delayed care for minor shrapnel wounds.

The film shows, in slow motion, a body of soldiers charging across a field and the catastrophic effect of a single shell exploding above their heads, showering them with hundreds of small, lethal shrapnel balls.

A small piece of shrapnel had pierced his back and apparently killed him, doctors said.

Judging by the relatively small amount of shrapnel and the size of the pieces that had hit patients, he said the bomb that went off on Wednesday appeared to be smaller than those that traumatized Israelis after the second Palestinian uprising in 2000.

A small piece of shrapnel tore through the armor plating and hit the headset radio microphone that McLain used to communicate with other soldiers.