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How to pronounce shrapnel in English?

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Type of shell

Examples of shrapnel

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El-Amruni was hit in the blast and received shrapnel wounds in his leg and back.
From the sacbee.com
Doctors removed shrapnel from his arms and treated extensive burns on his chest.
From the latimes.com
The mind is no longer cluttered by the shrapnel of pull hooks and missed greens.
From the independent.co.uk
The next thing I knew, he's rolling on the ground, his stomach full of shrapnel.
From the independent.co.uk
He also inhaled a five-inch piece of shrapnel, which remains lodged in his lung.
From the infowars.com
Next door to us a woman was hit by shrapnel in her chest while nursing her baby.
From the guardian.co.uk
Kat is hit by shrapnel at the end of the story, leaving him with a smashed shin.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Reiter's garage was damaged by shrapnel, with some pieces found two houses away.
From the stltoday.com
His leg still bleeds from a suppurating shrapnel wound he received 13 years ago.
From the time.com
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  • Shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight
  • Metal Church was an American heavy metal band. They originally formed in Seattle, Washington as Shrapnel in 1980, their first album was released in 1984, and the band's most recent work, This Present Wasteland, was released in 2008.http://www.metalchurchmusic. ...
  • Shrapnel, in comics, may refer to: *Shrapnel (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain *Shrapnel (Radical Comics), a series of sci-fi limited series from Radical Comics *Shrapnel (Transformers), a character in Transformers who has appeared in the comic book adaptations
  • Shrapnel is a supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He is primarily an enemy of the Outsiders and the Doom Patrol.
  • Shrapnel is planned to be three five-issue limited series published by Radical Comics in collaboration with Zombie Studios. The story was created and plotted by Mark Long and Nick Sagan (son of Carl Sagan), and the final script was written by M. ...
  • Shrapnel is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. Shrapnel is perhaps the one of the few Transformer names indirectly named for a real person, Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the exploding shell, who lent his name to the by-product of his invention, from ...
  • Shrapnel is an upcoming video game in development by Zombie Studios, with no publisher attached at this point. There is no official release date yet for any region or any platform. The game is an adaptation of the comic series by the same creators. ...
  • A collective term for shot, fragments, or debris thrown out by an exploding shell or landmine; loose change
  • A hollow cast-iron projectile filled with lead bullet set in a sulphur matrix and equipped with a time or percussion fuse that would set off a bursting charge and scatter the balls. ...