How to Use grenade in a Sentence

grenade

noun
  • The item was determined to be a smoke grenade and posed no threat, police said.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2021
  • There are videos online showing drones swiftly moving in and dropping grenades down an open tank hatch.
    Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
  • Then came a second grenade, followed by an eruption of gunfire that would last until morning.
    Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Players always know where and when every enemy, every bullet or every grenade will be.
    Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In April, a Highland Park spokesperson said an old hand grenade was found at the bottom of the bluff April 6.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Russia has already deployed unmanned ground vehicles that can launch antitank missiles, grenades, and drones.
    Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Because the grenade looked real, police personnel evacuated the lobby and called out the sheriff’s bomb-arson unit.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Drop drones, consumer quadcopters fitted with a mechanism to drop one or more grenades, can drop bombs with extreme accuracy from an altitude of a few hundred feet.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The grenade was transported to the Southwest Enforcement Bureau.
    cleveland, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Every few minutes, firecrackers explode, simulating grenades and artillery fire.
    Polina Lytvynova, NPR, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Throughout this time the volcanic isle’s sprawling shoreline and rolling hills have served as a crucial military training ground where U.S. troops detonate grenades and fire heavy artillery.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2024
  • One such exhibit is a copy of the handbook used to train FARC recruits, which shows you how to do everything from launching a grenade to setting up an orderly camp.
    Steph Dyson, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • At the front door was a bag of grenades, abandoned by Hamas.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Fragments of the grenade were pulled from Mr. Page’s face.
    Matt Schudel, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The Capitol shook with the force of percussion grenades, and smoke rose above the crowd.
    Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • There was a grenade, and the biggest choice of his life — to be made in an instant.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • And this will give players a new grenade that is unique to the player's class.
    Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 4 June 2024
  • Shoppers can grab a Chemex pour-over or a hand grenade mug.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Army trainees learn basic skills such as how to march, shoot guns and throw a grenade.
    Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • At the eighth hole, golfers threw a rubber hand grenade and played their ball from where the grenade landed.
    Su Bacon, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2024
  • Peck added that flashbang grenades were also used against the crowd.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2023
  • River’s been beaten, stun-gunned, tied up, left for dead, and blown up with a grenade.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 18 May 2024
  • Bombing is simply a matter of tilting the drone so the grenade rolls out.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • In the heavy slot, zero grenade launchers or machine guns, and just one sword.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The Kalashnikov burger comes with mayo; the grenade with onion rings; the PK machine gun with tomatoes.
    New York Times, 21 June 2022
  • 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
  • And Antwerp has been rocked by shootings and grenade explosions linked to drug gangs.
    New York Times, 4 Dec. 2021
  • 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

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