How to Use stun grenade in a Sentence

stun grenade

noun
  • Largess also criticized the use of sting ball stun grenades on the crowd.
    — Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Videos showed police using stun grenades to repel the crowds.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 13 June 2024
  • Israeli forces responded with live fire, tear gas and stun grenades.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Their largely peaceful protest was met with tear gas and stun grenades from riot police.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Agents then used a stun grenade, and he eventually was pulled out of the residence.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
  • There were soldiers who were shooting tear gas and stun grenades and live ammunition.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Police used tear gas, water cannon and stun grenades to break up a second night of protests on Wednesday.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Images on social media and news outlets showed one man who had been hit by a stun grenade with a mangled ear and blood pouring down his neck.
    — Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Residents said Israeli forces fired stun grenades and tear gas in an unprovoked attack.
    — Toqa Ezzidin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Israeli police fired stun grenades in an attempt to disperse the crowd, while some protesters hurled stones at police and set fire to trash bins.
    — Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
  • When the Waqf failed to persuade the youths to leave, Israeli police broke down the doors and stormed the mosque, firing stun grenades.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Officers surged forward to detain a person, deploying what appeared to be stun grenades.
    — CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Police threw stun grenades and blasted water cannons at demonstrators and detained 29 of them.
    — Orly Halpern / Jerusalem, TIME, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Unfortunately, the soldiers shut the doors on the students inside and then started to use stun grenades against the adults and villagers, pushing them around.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
  • At yet another university, officers fired stun grenades at students.
    — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Video from the scene showed security inside the site throwing what appeared to be stun grenades at Palestinians waiting for food outside.
    — Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
  • Shaw entered the Capitol despite witnessing police deploying stun grenades and tear gas to keep rioters out.
    — Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
  • On that day, hundreds of peaceful demonstrators found themselves the targets of law enforcement firing stun grenades, gas and rubber bullets into the crowd.
    — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • The Israeli received a 20-month prison sentence for hurling a stun grenade into a Palestinian home, the report said.
    — Dov Lieber, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
  • On Wednesday, police fired rubber bullets and used stun grenades against migrants protesting in Sherwood, who were throwing rocks, sticks and logs at police.
    — Arkansas Online, 20 June 2026
  • March 1 Police violently cracked down on protesters, using stun grenades and water cannons.
    — Joe Snell, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • Police then relocated the worshippers one more time to a spot near the Old City walls when, moments later, officers threw stun grenades at the group.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades to quell the violence, and officials advised residents to avoid the area in central Tel Aviv.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Israeli forces used stun grenades when pounding down doors, and employed artillery, airstrikes and heavy gunfire throughout their operation, according to residents.
    — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Flash-bang grenades, or stun grenades, are designed to disorient through a combination of deafening noise, blinding light, heat, fragmentation and pressure.
    — Michele Heisler, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Early Wednesday, Israeli police raided the mosque, firing stun grenades and rubber bullets to evict worshippers who had locked the doors of the building.
    — Isabel Debre and Sam McNeil, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The Islamic Waqf authorities, which manage the compound, said police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The Islamic Waqf authorities, which manages the compound, said police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds.
    — Isabel Debre and Fares Akram, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Three years later, a mobile trailer caught fire during a training exercise, when a non-explosive device used to simulate a stun grenade started a fire that engulfed the trailer.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
  • And yet the riot police confront the demonstrators with tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets, stun grenades—even, some witnesses claim, live ammunition.
    — Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020

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