noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hand grenade
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hand
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We were taught about hand grenades and explosives, and how to set ambushes and lay mines in the most effective pattern.
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Alcohol is more like a pharmacological hand grenade .
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Away from the street self-taught craftsmen copy working anti-aircraft guns, hand grenades and rocket launchers.
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Within the first 10 minutes, we had 6 guys wounded from different booby traps, mainly hand grenades .
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Janko Janjic, 43, detonated a hand grenade that killed him and injured the soldiers.
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A: I meant just-I meant only that the only means I could evacuate the people would be a hand grenade .
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Two days earlier, Myeni had escaped unhurt after a hand grenade was thrown into his house in Soweto.
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In addition, like their fathers and grandfathers, most men carried hand grenades .
launcher
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Selemenev is trained to handle a 60-pound automatic grenade launcher .
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They had the minigun, the grenade launchers , and the rockets, and they would usually fire all three.
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As we loaded up for one mission, a grunt got on board carrying an M-79 grenade launcher .
■ VERB
fire
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The gunmen fired shots or threw grenades .
throw
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As he fumbled with his belt he shouted out to the others to throw their grenades .
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My idea of checking out a tunnel is throwing a hand grenade down it.
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Across the street, some one threw a grenade , injuring 18 people.
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One day some street cowboys threw an uncharged hand grenade at him for a joke.
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Several people said a local teacher, a People's Alliance supporter named Gopalan Suviraj, threw the grenade .
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They had all reacted to the door opening, as if he'd thrown a grenade into the room and they were frozen.
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The man's arm went up and he threw the grenade through the open door.
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Early one morning, just before the end, they threw grenades at the front of our house.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bomb disposal team made the grenade safe.
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I pulled the pin out of the grenade .
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My idea of checking out a tunnel is throwing a hand grenade down it.
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Only in horseshoes, hand grenades and presidential elections is close good enough.
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Pick four men, send two to each side of the enemy position with a couple of Stens and some grenades.
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Stephen reached down to his belt for the grenades.
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Tense soldiers detonated concussion grenades in an effort to disperse the crowds.
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They had detonated sticks of dynamite, and topped off the attack with a flurry of grenades.