Sentences with phrase «like shrapnel»

It's like shrapnel from a small bomb.

These pieces act like shrapnel, cutting and piercing the user or anyone close by.

What is worse is that the surf constantly washes up jagged bit of coral, like shrapnel, so children playing in the shallows and people just paddling are in serious danger of injury.

When the pressure inside is great enough, the kernel explodes, shattering its pericarp like a shrapnel grenade.

Suddenly, a boiling thunderhead surrounded them, unleashing bolts of lightning that slammed into the mountainside scattering bits of rock and ice like shrapnel.

Not exact matches

But the noughties music scene had countless other retro sectors drawing heavily on the pre-eighties, from the freak folkers to neopyschedelic bands like Dungen to the garage - punk revival... The pop present was caught in the crossfire of revival simultaneity, with shrapnel from multiple different pasts whizzing past our ears at any given point.

It literally looked like a giant raisin had been murdered and the shrapnel was all over our carpet.

Still, they've all seen worse every day at Reed or at Brooke Army Medical Center in Fort Sam Houston, Texas: faces speckled by shrapnel or covered with scars that look like melted wax, men wheeling through the halls missing two or three limbs.

There is alot of fragmentation involved, much like how a Flak cannon's goal is not to destroy the plane with a direct hit, but to damage its light skin with shrapnel.

Howe urged Percoco to make Aiello feel like part of the team despite the «shrapnel» Aiello was taking in the aftermath of the stadium deal.

Shrapnel and glass tore through his legs, sinus cavity and right eye, and twisted like a corkscrew through his right cheek.

A further blow came in 1929 when American astronomer Edwin Hubble observed that galaxies were flying apart from each other like pieces of cosmic shrapnel.

Debris from shattered homes can be the most devastating aspect of a storm, sending a cloud of shrapnel - like pieces of scrap metal and wood flying at hundreds of miles an hour into house after house.

NASA's orbiting probes were in no danger of colliding with the comet, but with it traveling at a speed of approximately 125,000 mph (56 km / sec), the dust from its tail that reached Mars 100 minutes after the encounter posed a threat like a blast of shrapnel.

Some suffered only minor shrapnel wounds, while others faced life - threatening gunshot wounds and blast injuries that required the entire group's efforts and critical rapid intervention like chest tubes to stabilize them.

Bullet casings and shrapnel are probably not the most requested gifts by children whose parents travel for a living, but then most children don't have parents like Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang.

Amidst profanity shrapnel, some teen drinking and the glossing over of serious infractions like cheating on homework and lying to parents, this movie tries to teach the importance of team work.

Shrapnel bomb more to your liking?

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The airbags have been found to shoot shrapnel on deployment — nothing like having a grenade go off in your face, right?

Buoyed by the popularity of the killcam they've gone and added even more killcams for some stealth takedowns so that you can watch a knife enter a brain and for other things like your explosive traps blowing people up, resulting in a wonderful moment of slow - mow glory where shrapnel turns them into pulp.

Bullets can be designed with elemental effects, crazy firing patterns (a personal favorite is a combo that shoots balls of energy, which then freeze in mid-air before exploding like tiny electric pipe bombs, sending shrapnel every which way) or even the ability to heal yourself or your team.

Look at the screenshots and you'll see some kind of shrapnel sticking out of his head, almost like a horn.

I don't see niche - based publishers like Matrix Games and Shrapnel Games disappearing.

Kiefer Sutherland doesn't say much as the camera pans across, showing the shrapnel in Big Boss's head that quite literally looks like a devil horn.