Bit of coal dust, I expect.

I told you it was spent. It would have smashed the bone.

A man I knew lost an eye by getting a bit of grit in it.

'How was I to know he had a silver plate in his head?

A splinter of glass wounded Gregor in the face, some corrosive medicine or other dripped over him.

Aboud s husband was wounded in the head by shrapnel, so she took him to the hospital in Damascus.

He had a silver plate in his head as a result of a shrapnel wound in the war.

Four year old Sahir was already dead, with half his head blown away by an Israeli shrapnel.

A tiny little sliver call themselves libertarians, or socialists, or some other small third party, and the largest block, 40 percent, say they're independents.

Though only a small sliver of land relative to the sizes of continents, the Isthmus of Panama had an enormous impact on the earth's climate and environment.

It's not clear whether it was shrapnel from a sniper or helicopter bullet, or even shrapnel from a tank shelling that was responsible.

In some cases, the sinus cavity can be irrigated with saline (antral lavage) and the tooth fragment may be brought back to the site of the opening through which it entered the sinus, and may be retrievable.

Most of the patients at the clinic were children, many of whom have witnessed violence. Some had experienced it themselves. One boy getting treatment had been struck with shrapnel on a cheekbone and could no longer close his right eye.