James Belushi

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

American Actor

Fritz Kreisler

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

Austrian Composer

Deborah Tannen

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

American Sociologist

Philip Gibbs

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

British Journalist

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

Colum McCann

The short story is an imploding universe. It has all the boil of energy inside it. A novel has shrapnel going all over the place. You can have a mistake in a novel. A short story has to be perfect.

Irish Writer

Debra Granik

I'm someone who's always looking for hope - if there's a ray of hope, a shrapnel, shred, a flake of hope - because I take the misfortune or hard times of others very seriously.

American Director

John Hodgman

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.

American Comedian

Katharine Whitehorn

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

George Santayana

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Spanish Philosopher

Originally described metal fragments from artillery shells, now used for any explosive.

Origin Usage

Implies violent explosions and injuries, evoking powerful images and emotions.

Violent Imagery

Suggests danger or harm, often used in contexts of warfare and violent incidents.

Hazard Connotation

Can describe fragments from any broken object, not just related to explosives.

Broaden Context

Suggests a potential injury risk from scattered pieces of any material.

Safety Concern

When not from an explosion, specify the material, such as 'glass shrapnel'.

Material Specific

 they make a crater shrapnel goes flying everywhere and so if you're in that path of the shrapnel not doing so good so because of that there's foxholes everywhere people will jump in into caves but they've been system and then when the dust settles people come out

Making the impossible...

 would get him out of a front and situation and to this day I'm still carrying about a 3/8 inch piece of shrapnel on my left brush which makes it hard to operate there was no family who come back to I was just looking for a place to hang up my hat and I came back

Watch This Veteran Fly...

 helping soldiers' lives being saved by surgeons, who could then find pieces of bullets and shrapnel inside their bodies. But there's no way we could have come up with that technology by asking scientists to build better surgical probes.

The case for curiosity-dr...

 disperse a lethal shrapnel over a wide area concrete bombs containing no shrapnel at we've decided to see just how much damage an explosive bomb can cause to the area surrounding its target and then compare that to the collateral damage

Concrete "Bomb" PIPE I...

 deep second-degree burns up and down his arms and it on his face we both had shrapnel through our faces and up and down our arms and I too had second-degree burns up and down my face but not as deep as his in the dutch

Inside the Green Berets:...

 have important but Phyllis has other plans and they just brought up these two huge guns the car pieces were hitting us in the head in the arms and the legs you think of shrapnel you think of men in a

Shootout in the Streets...

 the reason papi came to us and and the reason any chimp comes to us is because her mother was killed for bush meat and poppy has a little bit of shrapnel in different places that probably came off

Poppy The Baby Chimp Has...

 tanks and shrapnel what's the most effective thing to do fight back given use more force this question how do I deal with the bully without becoming a thug in return has been with me ever

Fighting with...

 But in the commotion I noticed Bobby staggering to the back of the boat. He'd been shot, hit by shrapnel. You okay?

Dealing with Dangerous...

 the shrapnel hit the back of my neck and then the fire just became overwhelming

Shrapnel

Origin Usage

Violent Imagery

Hazard Connotation

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