Sentence examples for to shrapnel from inspiring English sources
noun
An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
Um-Musab has lost an eye to shrapnel, two of her sons had died in bombings.
Others lost their eyes to shrapnel or as a result of being caught up in combat.
My breakfasts would be dreary events without my daily fix of the wonderful Simon Hoggart, a worthy successor to Shrapnel.
She was brave before she lost an eye to shrapnel in Sri Lanka; somehow, though it cost her more, she managed to be as brave afterwards.
Others call him "Laaouar," or the One-Eyed, after he lost an eye to shrapnel; some call him "Mr. Marlboro" for the cigarette-smuggling monopoly he created across the Sahel region to finance his jihad.
Mr. Belmokhtar, 40 — sometimes known as "Laaouar," or the one-eyed, after he lost an eye to shrapnel — was deemed to be a menace long before he drew international attention for last month's attack.
MARINKA, Ukraine ― A long and jarring mud road, riddled with shell craters, winds from the edge of Marinka to shrapnel-riddled low-rise apartment blocks that now demarcate the end of Ukrainian government-held territory.
Martin, 28, was conscious and talking after undergoing eight hours of emergency surgery to repair shrapnel wounds to his abdomen overnight, his photo agency Panos told MediaGuardian.co.uk.
"I turned and started to run, and I began to feel shrapnel in my back and I fell to the ground".
Her older brother, Zubair, thirteen, was taken to Islamabad and then, when the medical costs grew too steep, to Peshawar, for surgery to remove shrapnel from his leg.
Today, little Jane Richard will fasten prosthesis to the portion of her leg not lost to the shrapnel of the bomb.
