(n.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authorities had said they used water cannon, teargas and smoke grenades to break up the protest.
(2) "I suspected it was the grenade, but I was hoping it was his radio," he said.
(3) Grace's ascent has also thrown a grenade into the bitter succession battle within Zanu-PF, which Mugabe has divided and ruled for decades.
(4) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(5) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
(6) Grenades outside parliament is terrorism,” he wrote on Facebook.
(7) Visiting journalists were briefed by security officers on the latest attacks: five IEDs detonated or exploded in 48 hours; a car bomb discovered and detonated; and "a rash" of grenade attacks.
(8) Wednesday’s attack during dawn prayers is the first attack on Maiduguri since 28 December, when Boko Haram killed at least 50 people in an operation involving rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers.
(9) Republican guards used anti-aircraft guns, automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades against the opposition camp and intensified the shelling of the streets surrounding the square.
(10) Bahrain • Authorities used gunfire, stun grenades and tear gas on opposition protesters in advance of a Formula One race that will draw international attention to the island state this weekend.
(11) A member of the anti-balaka holds a grenade and a sabre at a checkpoint in Pissa, CAR.
(12) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .
(13) Random grenade blasts and gunfire sent ripples of tension through the crowds, tearful women ducking as explosions rocked the courtyard.
(14) Francis Dixon, 38, from Stalybridge, was acquitted of the murder of David Short, the attempted murder of Hark and causing an explosion with a hand grenade.
(15) These villains have limited aspirations, and the man in the white hat has a limited arsenal of era-appropriate weaponry: a gun, a bow and arrow, a few grenades, maybe even a tank.
(16) In turn, they have been the target of gun and grenade attacks by unknown parties.
(17) Turkish police appeared uneasy at the size of the crowd gathered near a fragile border fence and fired teargas grenades to disperse them, adding the crack of smaller explosions to the rumbling of the Isis advance.
(18) I don’t want anyone to get hurt.” Enton could then be seen running from police lines still clutching her sign as smoke grenades and pepper bombs were fired.
(19) Similarly: Don't use your toaster as a bathtub toy, don't juggle live hand grenades and never put salt in your eyes .
(20) The attack marks the latest flaring of political violence in the deeply polarised kingdom, where months of anti-government rallies have been marred by sporadic gun and grenade attacks by unknown assailants.
Grenadier
Definition:
(n.) Originaly, a soldier who carried and threw grenades; afterward, one of a company attached to each regiment or battalion, taking post on the right of the line, and wearing a peculiar uniform. In modern times, a member of a special regiment or corps; as, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc.
(n.) Any marine fish of the genus Macrurus, in which the body and tail taper to a point; they mostly inhabit the deep sea; -- called also onion fish, and rat-tail fish.
(n.) A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duke of Edinburgh attended in his role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards.
(2) Jacqui Janes, the mother of Grenadier Guardsman Jamie Janes, who was killed in Afghanistan on 5 October, received the letter days after her son's death.
(3) Keith Simpson, who served as William Hague’s parliamentary private secretary during his four years as home secretary, told the Guardian: “A number of colleagues will, either in their speeches during the debate or in the form of interventions, raise serious questions because they do have concerns about the overall coalition strategy, about means and ends, whether you can continue air strikes just on Iraq targets or whether pressure will be brought to bear on us to include targets in Syria.” Adam Holloway, the Conservative MP for Gravesham, who served with the Grenadier Guards during the first Gulf war, told the Guardian: “It has just not been thought through.
(4) Brigadier David Maddan, Regimental Lieutenant Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, recalled how on a previous tour of Afghanistan in 2007, Chant single-handedly carried a seriously injured soldier in full kit to safety.
(5) But where are the marines, the Grenadiers, the Blues and Royals?
(6) International events with a British theme helped raise the brand’s profile, with London streets recreated in a Shanghai warehouse and James Corden, the Beckhams and the Queen’s Grenadier Guards starring at a one-off fashion show in Los Angeles in April.
(7) Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook could not explain why he stabbed the boy in the kidneys in an unprovoked attack when he was hungover after a heavy session drinking vodka.
(8) William Ferrand said his nephew, Sergeant Matthew Telford , joined the Grenadier Guards at the age of 16.
(9) Sergeant Nick Johnson, of 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, knew WO1 Chant and Sgt Telford as close friends.
(10) Robert Nairac Photograph: Press Eye A 29-year-old old captain in the Grenadier Guards, Nairac disappeared in May 1977 after being abducted by the IRA from a pub in South Armagh, where he is said to have been attempting to pass himself off as a republican from Belfast.
(11) The most deadly day of the year came in what qualifies as a friendly-fire incident when an Afghan policeman at a checkpoint near Nad e-Ali turned his gun on Darren Chant, Matthew Telford and James Major of 1st Battalion the Grenadier Guards and Steven Boote and Nicholas Webster-Smith of the Royal Military Police, killing them all.
(12) The gaffe followed a series of front-page articles in Rupert Murdoch's tabloid taking the prime minister to task for a series of mistakes, including spelling Janes's surname as "James" in a condolence letter over the death of her Grenadier Guardsman son Jamie Janes in Afghanistan.
(13) Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was suffering from a hangover after a heavy vodka drinking session when he bayoneted the boy, who was running an errand.
(14) Warrant Officer Class 1 Darren Chant, 40, Regimental Sergeant Major of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, was the most senior of five UK servicemen shot dead by an officer they had been training in southern Afghanistan on 3 November.
(15) Among the fallen was Sergeant Matthew Telford of the Grenadier Guards, the first of the dead soldiers to be named.
(16) The soldiers – three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military police – were killed by gunshot wounds suffered in the attack, which happened in the Nad-e'Ali district yesterday.
(17) The court martial heard that the boy was running an errand when he was bayoneted by Grenadier guardsman Daniel Crook, who had a hangover from a heavy vodka drinking session.
(18) The 40-year-old, born in Walthamstow, north-east London, died alongside Sergeant Matthew Telford, 37, and Guardsman James Major, 18, also from the Grenadier Guards; and Corporal Steven Boote, 22, and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, 24, from the Royal Military Police.
(19) My father was a Queen's Messenger and a colonel in the Grenadier Guards."
(20) After beginning his army career at the age of 16, he joined 1st Battalion the Grenadier Guards when he was 18.