Soldiers are trained to dispose of munitions, such as unexploded shells, that are found on the battlefield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Stuck in one corner is an unexploded mortar round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprised, General?] Reference

They lay pell-mell, mixed in with unexploded shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting France] Reference

"An unexploded shell must 'ave gorn orf in the night.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917] Reference

The street was littered and unexploded hand grenades lay everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man] Reference

Of course, unexploded is easier because they don't have to pick up the pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Every Contact Leaves a Trace'] Reference

For a month, Frank carried her refusal in his stomach like an unexploded grenade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 4: In Which A Long Walk Is Considered] Reference

There were still unexploded devices around the car that had been packed inside it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2006] Reference

This is turning out to be one of these, I guess, unexploded land mines, if you will.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2006] Reference

T.J. HOLMES, CNN, ANCHOR: And Sara, we know that police did find some unexploded bombs.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008] Reference

It is this vast amount of unexploded military ordnance that concerns the hellfighters most.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellfighters To The Rescue] Reference

Alexander says it's just a guess how much unexploded ordnance is really left across Berlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [World War II Bombs Still Menace Germany] Reference

Now, I have issued orders enough about permitting these unexploded shells to lie about, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

STEVE INSKEEP, host: Now, let's talk about an inadvertent American export: unexploded bombs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laos' Unexploded Bombs: Deadly Scrap Metal, Toys] Reference

In addition to the human cost, says Hayter, there's the economic cost of unexploded ordnance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mekong Divides Different Worlds In 'Golden Triangle'] Reference

He seems doomed -- until a heroic Northern sentry saves his life by defusing an unexploded mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends And Enemies: A Cinematic Twist] Reference

But for many, the past is as concealed and dangerous as the unexploded land mines in their fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facing A Grisly Past] Reference

Two unexploded car bombs in London, complete with cell phones and the makings of a massive explosion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's to Blame?] Reference

Here at H.Q. they dug up one of these new and unexploded shells, and it had penetrated 14 feet into the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

By means of compressed air the gases and some particles of the unexploded powder were blown out of the big cannon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference

Laos unexploded ordnance; deforestation; soil erosion; most of the population does not have access to potable water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

But it will take many decades and many millions of dollars more before the problem of unexploded ordnance is solved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mekong Divides Different Worlds In 'Golden Triangle'] Reference

It's estimated that more than 4,000 unexploded World War II bombs and explosives remain buried beneath Berlin alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [World War II Bombs Still Menace Germany] Reference

Laos: unexploded ordnance; deforestation; soil erosion; a majority of the population does not have access to potable water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Ironically, humanitarian nongovernmental organizations were prepared for another problem: unexploded mines and booby traps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeds Of Carnage] Reference

Will you gather up the unexploded fragments of this prodigious magazine of all mischief, and heap them up for continued explosions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference

Memmon was injured in April 2003, shortly after the invasion, while playing with abandoned, unexploded munitions near his Basra home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq war: Inquiry launched into Iraqi boy's disappearance from UK base] Reference

Then, when such unexploded shells as were lying around loose had been cautiously carried away, the King, his brother, Prince Frederick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

What's more, two unexploded bombs found in Jakarta, and defused by police, were delivered in shopping bags from a well-known Bandung store.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bloody Christmas] Reference