Sentences with phrase «of shrapnel»

I took away with me a piece of shrapnel from a mortar shell that had killed a four - year - old girl just two weeks before.

A woman aboard a Southwest flight was nearly sucked out of the plane after a piece of shrapnel from an exploded engine broke off and shattered her window before the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

And the time that he served had shattered all his nerves and left a bit of shrapnel in his knee.

One bystander who had been rushed into the tent had a deep, three - inch - wide gash in his leg with a piece of shrapnel sticking out of it.

During the Battle of Okinawa, Objector Desmond Doss saved 50 - 75 combatants while receiving four separate injuries resulting in a fracture bone in his left arm and 17 separate pieces of shrapnel in his body.

Howe described Aiello as getting «hit by a lot of shrapnel» at the time.

Such disasters would create large clouds of shrapnel, making further collisions with other satellites more likely and sparking a chain reaction that would swiftly surround the Earth with belts of debris.

This one is promising individual shards of shrapnel, on top of the bone shattering explosions and exploding organs.

If a Takata airbag inflates too rapidly, the metal canister housing the airbag inflator may explode and send deadly pieces of shrapnel into the faces and chests of vehicle occupants.

After pulling off all the meat, I placed the entire carcass in the pot with the rest of the shrapnel I'd already pulled off, filled the pot with purified water and a splash of apple cider vinegar (helps to leach out the minerals and goodness from the bones), and let it simmer on the stove for the next day.

On July 17, four days before his baby was due, Kalsu was made the acting commander of Battery A after the captain in charge was choppered out to have a piece of shrapnel removed from a bone in his neck.

The trenches of World War I exposed men's faces to a fusillade of shrapnel, spurring unprecedented surgeries to reconstruct what remained.

Aside from the physical fallout of shrapnel and other chemical elements, the blast wave alone can cause severe injuries to the lungs and brain.

Construction of Shrapnel, Smoke, and Searchlight Shells for Artillery and Bombs for the Use of Aircraft

A piece of shrapnel went through one of the air - conditioning ducts.

Over billions of years, the dwarf planet could have acquired a thick shroud of shrapnel.

And with the probe barreling in at nearly 10 miles per second — one of the highest speeds ever achieved by a spacecraft — any encounter with a speck of shrapnel could spell disaster.

This could trigger a domino effect where bits of shrapnel crash into other objects, creating more and more projectiles to clutter low Earth orbit.

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.

Instead of Shrapnel, this version of Bigg Boss appears to have a «V» shaped scar on the right side of his forehead.

A consortium of 10 automaker clients of Takata has just determined that the root causes of the shrapnel misfires are the supplier's use of ammonium nitrate, plus the way Takata constructed the assembly, both combined with exposure to heat and humidity, Automotive News reported Tuesday.

From explosions you can trace the individual pieces of shrapnel entering the body, watching the bones break, flesh and ligaments tear.

Over on the PlayStation Europe Twitter account, Sony is teasing a new costume set for the upcoming LittleBigPlanet sequel that sees Sackboy cosplay as Big Boss (seemingly in his Ground Zeroes guise, due to the lack of the shrapnel horn and prosthetic arm seen in The Phantom Pain) while Oddsock, for whatever reason, dresses up as a tank.

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

In Sniper Elite 4, these kills have been upped quite a bit to be included in other types of kills, so if you throw a grenade and it lands right next to a guy, expect to see a slow motion scene of shrapnel piercing various points and arteries of the Nazi's body.

Also on display will be Cattrell's most recent work, including a series of photographs of shrapnel and fragments found on the battlefields, as well as images of Redmires and the Hallam moors near Sheffield where the Battalion trained before being sent to the trenches.

Pinchot met Cord Meyer in 1944 when he was a Marine Corps lieutenant who had lost his left eye because of shrapnel injuries received in combat.

Crowds of short blue lines are suspended, behaving as a combination of shrapnel and swarms.

Howe said that the project had become a «mess» and that Aiello equated his situation to being «hit by a lot of shrapnel» when all he wanted to do was help see the stadium built.

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.

Each image is meticulously assembled to give the illusion that it was created from shards of shrapnel (hence the series name).

After hearing countless stories of how pornography has affected the lives of others, I've come to realize that the consequences of porn use are akin to flying bits of shrapnel: painful, unpredictable, and in some ways, fatal to our lives.

The dinosaurs» fate may have been sealed by a piece of shrapnel from a cosmic collision that occurred long before the asteroid smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago.

When someone throws a hand grenade, it's impossible to know where every single piece of shrapnel will fall.

Collagen is critical for all kinds of wounds, whether a bullet wound, a piece of shrapnel or a papercut.

Should it explode, however, four pieces of shrapnel will get flung in diagonal directions, damaging the Kongs and even enemies upon impact with them.

An airplane crash leaves a boy unconscious and injured: blood is shown when a piece of shrapnel is removed from his head.

Furthermore, I apologize to all the crew and cast for any negative attention Lethal Weapon is receiving because of these incidents,» he said in a statement after an actor felt unsafe on the set after being hit by a piece of shrapnel.

North Africa, where he it and caught a piece of shrapnel.

She was struck in the toe and upper arm by flying pieces of shrapnel.