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Noun(1) shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight

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(1) Wooden fragments exploded into shrapnel all around him.(2) The energy overload feedback has electrocuted several that were not killed by shrapnel when the explosions occurred.(3) The captain's colleagues received shrapnel wounds but their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.(4) little more than a few pounds and a handful of shrapnel(5) Almost immediately, Smith was wounded a second time by fragments of shrapnel .(6) he was killed by flying shrapnel(7) Then you work out the size of the bomb, the type of explosives, the attendant shrapnel , the amount of building damage and the amount of flying glass.(8) Those who escaped death from blast and shrapnel wounds were ordered outside, only to be mown down under a hail of bullets from automatic weapons.(9) Detectives also found about 130 fragments of steel shrapnel lying around the blast scene.(10) First into battle was Joe, who ran a head-on-head, slightly damaging his shield power from the enemy's explosion throwing shrapnel into it.(11) Even the captain himself worked on pressurized storage lockers around the perimeter of the hold had been damaged by shrapnel from the explosion.(12) Another mortar blast struck a tree looking down over the trenches, scattering fragments of shrapnel all down into the fortifications.(13) Soft flesh is no match for mortar shells, rocket-propelled grenade fragments and shrapnel thrown out in all directions by roadside bombs.(14) A 20-year-old man in his house when it was bombed u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510took shrapnel in his leg,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb Campbell recounted.(15) Most of the shells fired by artillery guns were high explosive shells which could throw shrapnel over a wide distance in the trenches.(16) A second later, the building exploded, throwing bits of shrapnel everywhere and knocking the unprepared Chris off his feet.