How to Use flash-bang in a Sentence

flash-bang

noun
  • Comeaux said the flash-bang was effective.
    — Chase Rogers, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • In the video, agents are seen approaching the home and setting off a flash-bang.
    — Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The streets still looked like a war zone, with flash-bangs detonating and clouds of tear gas in the air.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Some folks get caught up in the glory, others marvel at the flash-bang technologies.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Special operations forces threw flash-bangs into the area where they were found.
    — CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • As the confrontation escalated, agents deployed a flash-bang device while crowds threw bricks and paint cans from rooftops.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Officers set off tear gas and flash-bang grenades to move the crowd, including Garza, down J Street.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Federal officers wielded batons and deployed flash-bang devices against the crowd.
    — Jack Brook, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Civilized nations don’t use armored trucks and flash-bangs to manage visa overstays or a lack of permission for residence.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Federal agents used flash-bangs and tear gas to disperse crowds, with some hitting demonstrators, as well as protesters setting fire to self-driving cars.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The mayor described the protests as peaceful and criticized federal officers’ use of pepper balls, flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Police used at least one flash-bang grenade to clear a handful of demonstrators from the entrance as CBP vehicles drove onto the base.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Officers called for flash-bang devices — diversionary explosives that create a loud noise and bright flash meant to disorient — to subdue the animals, the footage shows.
    — Chase Rogers, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The mayor characterized the protests as peaceful, as federal officers also used pepper balls, flash-bang grenades and rubber bullets against the demonstrators.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Suarez testified that agents found bullet casings on a mattress and on the floor, along with three boxes of ammunition and a flash-bang device, which can temporarily disorient people with a loud blast and bright flash.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Police used at least one flash-bang grenade to disperse demonstrators blocking the entrance as CBP vehicles entered the facility.
    — Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • At $15,000 per box of six drones, and an additional monthly service charge per student, the drones are equipped with nonlethal weaponry, including flash-bangs and pepper spray guns.
    — Emily Greene-Colozzi, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
  • The film is largely forgotten today, a minor effort awkwardly lodged between the grit of New Hollywood, on one side, and the schlocky flash-bang blockbusters of the eighties, on the other.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
  • On Wednesday night, an agent reportedly threw flash-bang grenades and tear gas near a car filled with children, causing airbags to deploy, three minors to be hospitalized, and an infant who was in the car to momentarily stop breathing, the child’s mother said.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026
  • As Miles manages to lift up Lily and get her out of there, MPKs start hurling flash-bangs, destroying the Ed Baldwin shrine and shooting a couple of protesters in the process.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Mesloh, a former police officer, researched crowd-control munitions — grenades, flash-bangs, Tasers — for seven years before 2010 when funding was rescinded for such research.
    — Minneapolis Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Among them were bills to restrict the use of flash-bang grenades and explosive breaching charges for crowd control and for immigration enforcement and a bill prohibiting ICE agents from arresting people on their way to a court proceeding.
    — Andrew Graham april 15, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • After a mostly peaceful rally, demonstrators clashed with police, with officers firing rubber bullets, deploying flash-bangs and using tear gas on crowds after people threw rocks, bricks, bottles and commercial-grade fireworks at law enforcement.
    — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The New Yorker staff writer Emily Witt was reporting near the scene, where protesters quickly gathered to confront ICE agents, and were met with tear gas and flash-bang devices.
    — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
  • On the ground in Los Angeles, ICE agents and other local law enforcement fired a range of less-lethal weapons at protesters, such as pepper balls, hard foam rounds or canisters delivering flash-bang grenades and tear gas.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • Campbell also pointed out that many law enforcement experts, including the Police Executive Research Forum, say the use of flash-bangs on demonstrators is usually counterproductive.
    — Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Moments after being struck directly by a flash-bang in an encounter with federal agents in Minneapolis, a protester showed CNN’s Ryan Young where shrapnel from the flash-bang became embedded into her knee.
    — Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Department of Homeland Security agents were shot at during an immigration enforcement operation in Chicago Saturday, the agency said — as federal agents were also accused of using pepper spray and flash-bang grenades against protesters across the Chicago area.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025

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