stun grenade

noun

plural stun grenades

: an explosive device that produces a blinding flash of light and a sudden, loud noise : flash-bang

After initially holding back, the police fired stun grenades, tear gas and hard sponge bullets and sent in officers on horseback, prompting demonstrators to accuse them of the kind of police brutality that they had turned out to protest in the first place.—

Isabel Kershner

Examples of stun grenade in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web At least 27 people were killed and scores injured in clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday, as police fired tear gas and lobbed stun grenades to disperse tens of thousands of protesters calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. —

Reuters, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024 And yet the riot police confront the demonstrators with tear gas, water cannons, rubber bullets, stun grenades—even, some witnesses claim, live ammunition. —

Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020 Videos showed police using stun grenades to repel the crowds. —

Christian Edwards, CNN, 13 June 2024 In 2019, deputies designing active shooter training in Marina del Rey accidentally started a fire while testing a flashbang trainer, a nonexplosive version of a flashbang, or stun grenade. —

Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for stun grenade

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