| Modern categories of artillery fire solid shot, shrapnel, or explosive shells. |
| Bombs burst from above like rolling cracks of thunder as shrapnel rained down from the sky, expended from death black clouds. |
| Before 1914 artillery shells had consisted mainly of shrapnel, whose airbursts were effective in mobile warfare. |
| He has to be operated on for an injury to his face, he has shrapnel lodged in his jawbone and a sizeable wound to the left side of his face. |
| In others, he scatters the powder more randomly so that the drawing resembles a starburst or shrapnel blast. |
| Steel furnishings and aluminum plane parts were torn into white-hot shrapnel. |
