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hand grenades

n. (plural of hand grenade English)

Usage examples of "hand grenades".

What Andrea had to do was potentially even more dangerous than climbing around U-boats with a toolbox full of hand grenades.

There were three bodies on the slope just below him where they had fallen when the fascists had rushed the crest under cover of the automatic rifle and submachine gunfire and he and the others had broken down the attack by throwing and rolling down hand grenades.

Using hand grenades in an enclosure, even an enclosure as large as this one, was next to suicidal.

A group of American paratroopers burst in through the splintered door with Tommy guns poised and hand grenades ready.

He jumped in his jeep and drove to Foy, where he loaded the vehicle with cases of hand grenades and M-l ammunition, turned around, and met the column coming out of Bastogne.

The shotgun flechettes had come within a hair of taking his left arm off and had torn away the transceiver on his hip, but close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades.

The L-T took out one of the smooth and round M-67 hand grenades with the spoon handle and held it up.

Behind them, other men with lengths of burning slow match lit fuses, and powder-filled, iron hand grenades arced through the smoky air to burst amid the Guard's ranks.

Matter of fact, he's pretty damn impressed with the firepower your majesty is bringing to the throne, including one spiked slaver cannon, a few hundred real gunpowder guns, a dozen hand grenades, and—.

He rummaged in the one cupboard and found some glass bowls, Shan's carefully folded formal uniform jacket, thin-woven hand towels, and two hand grenades.