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  • This last passage is accompanied by an illustration of a grenade's brain -- which is divided into several areas controlling things like "protecting my hotter friend," "Spanx," "Jell-o Shots" and "Blocking out the fact that I'm the grenade."

    Book review: Mike Sorrentino's 'Here's the Situation' delivers predictability Liz Kelly 2010

  • He realised that due to their positions, while he could escape the grenade's blast, his team-mates couldn't.

    A Real Life Hero karenmiller 2008

  • Reacting quickly, he yelled grenade, allowing all four members of his crew prepared for the grenade's blast.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008 2008

  • One man brought to his bench accused of throwing a grenade had such limited mental capacity and motor control that he could not have even grasped the grenade's pin.

    Mort Rosenblum: Kashmir: When We Don't Expose Devils Paradise Goes to Hell 2008

  • Its door had been blown off by the grenade's blast.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Its door had been blown off by the grenade's blast.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • "Buddy, that grenade's not strong enough to blast a hole to the surface," Kowalski said.

    Ice Hunt Rollins, James, 1961- 2003

  • With calm bred from the performance of countless executions, Delta-One dialed a ten-second delay into the grenade's screw-dial, slid out the pin, and threw the grenade down into the chasm.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

  • The grenade's pin was still resting on the car's hood early

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Tuesday, and police found bits of the grenade's shell scattered around the courtyard among the shards of glass.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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