How to Use grenade in a Sentence

grenade

noun
Definition of grenadenext
Synonyms for grenadenext
  • At the front door was a bag of grenades, abandoned by Hamas.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The Capitol shook with the force of percussion grenades, and smoke rose above the crowd.
    — Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Army trainees learn basic skills such as how to march, shoot guns and throw a grenade.
    — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Peck added that flashbang grenades were also used against the crowd.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Many of the drones used in the conflict are off-the shelf-models that have been customized to carry grenades.
    — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The Army describes the type of device the diver found as a riot control hand grenade.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN, 4 June 2023
  • It is equipped with a 30 mm gun, a machine gun and/or a grenade launcher, and can travel up to 60 miles per hour.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The grenade was found to be inert and, according to its owner, was bought at an air show.
    — Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Explosive vests, grenades and RPGs were displayed on the floor.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • An anti-drone cage likewise works best against drones that drop grenades.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • That wall locker took the brunt of the grenade blast shielding Romaine and Hodges from massive shrapnel.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Nearby, three men passed around a green grenade, its striker and pin removed.
    — Ann Neumann, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • But the dud rate for these grenades has been observed at rates seven times higher in combat.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 7 July 2023
  • Though we readers can’t yet know the timing or scale of the explosion, the pin’s been pulled on a terrible grenade.
    — Joan Frank, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Bullets and grenades ripped through branches and leaves, sending splinters of wood whistling past.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • But none of these legal hand grenades ever garnered five votes.
    — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Allies can even pick up the ax and wield it, and Titans can consume a grenade to turn it into a shield for attack.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Although rare, this isn’t the first time a grenade has been found during a magnet fishing outing.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The music swells, all is forgiven, and Dennis Reynolds has a grenade launcher.
    — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Lucas turned on the ringer on his cell phone and treated it like a live grenade, staying as far away as possible for the next 24 hours.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The dashcam footage then shows a gunman tossing a grenade into the shelter as the assailants run for cover.
    — Isabel Kershner Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Lobbing a grenade in the middle of it constitutes real risk.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2023
  • At Les Éparges, a bullet grazed his left thigh; at Lorraine, his hand was wounded in a blast; at the Somme, grenade shrapnel tore his left shin.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Mass produced toward the end of the Cold War, cluster munitions of this type scatter dozens or even hundreds of the tiny grenades at a time.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • An hour into the assault, a group of about 30 people hid in the bomb shelter, with the militants firing weapons and lobbing grenades through the door.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The trenches are constructed with bends to contain a blast should a mortar or grenade land inside.
    — Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • That is roughly a hand grenade — enough to kill a soldier but not destroy vehicles.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Sheriff's deputies confirmed the item was indeed an inert grenade.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2023
  • This is less than the Vog-17 grenade widely used for drone-bombing by Ukraine, but the Lanius appears to be intended for much close-range use.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • This mother was grateful that her daughter was killed when a grenade was thrown into a shelter.
    — Joyce Kamanitz, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024

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