Example sentences for: grenades

How can you use “grenades” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The top non-local story at the Los Angeles Times is a major development in the Waco controversy: the discovery by the DOJ that all this time, the FBI has harbored audiotapes suggesting that pyrotechnic gas grenades were indeed fired at a bunker within the Branch Davidian compound.

  • Rioters in Northern Ireland destroyed shops, threw grenades at police, and hijacked and burned more than 230 cars as Protestants marched through Catholic neighborhoods.

  • Second, because the metal casing becomes quite hot, it is difficult for the device to be thrown back at police (a common problem with powder grenades).

  • The NYT reports that FAA agents masquerading as airline passengers have been able to smuggle guns, hand grenades and bombs past security guards or have gotten the weapons sent in through exits.

  • Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer, and Alan Keyes lobbed grenades at him.


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