How to Use shrapnel in a Sentence

shrapnel

noun
  • He has a piece of shrapnel in his leg.
  • Shrapnel from the explosion wounded many people.
  • We just got hit by some shrapnel.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
  • And the two shrapnel wounds on her own body.
    — Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Both of them had shrapnel lodged in their bodies.
    — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 12 Nov. 2025
  • His hands got the brunt of the blast and the flying shrapnel.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Fuentes had been shot in leg and shrapnel tore into her face.
    — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 25 Mar. 2018
  • That might be because of the shrapnel and deaths from drug use.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 16 May 2025
  • She has been wounded twice and has shrapnel lodged in her head.
    — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
  • One had his foot cut off while the other two had shrapnel wounds.
    — Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Pieces of shrapnel hit him in his calf, left eye and upper thigh.
    — Megan Jones, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • He was shot in both legs a total of five times and hit with shrapnel.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • Yonathan’s right leg was hit with shrapnel and the toes are still broken.
    — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The blast sent shrapnel into his eyes and ripped off most of his right hand.
    — Jeremy Roebuck, Philly.com, 19 June 2018
  • He was hit in an arm and a leg, and his back was peppered with shrapnel.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Walls that had been a crisp white color have smoke stains and holes from shrapnel.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The medic pulled up Nick's pant leg to find a shrapnel hole in his calf.
    — George Stanley, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Those pieces wound like flying shrapnel.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Here is a store where a man was killed by a piece of shrapnel that happened to fly in.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The man was hit by shrapnel while his daughter was struck in the leg, court records said.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2021
  • Leopold, who lives in Texas, keeps a piece of shrapnel from the bomb on his desk.
    — Thomas Curwen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • And Healey is doing her best to avoid any shrapnel.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
  • How does the shrapnel from this hit me on the opposite side of the head?
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
  • She was hit by shrapnel from Taliban ground fire in the arm and leg.
    — Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Her neck still has a shrapnel scar from the third day of the war, when her apartment was hit.
    — Hanna Arhirova and Lori Hinnant, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • The right side of the boy’s head was badly wounded by shrapnel.
    — Susannah George, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
  • She was shot in the arm, and suffered injuries to her head by shrapnel.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The agency says in the report that the shrapnel made a dent in the hood.
    — Alex Stone, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The toddler has shrapnel in her chest and a hole in her bottom lip and tongue.
    — ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • She was shot in the arm and had head injuries from shrapnel, police said.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 5 Aug. 2021

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