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Sentence Examples The trenches were constantly being destroyed, either by enemy shellfire, or water damage. After one more probe, accompanied by 4,000 rounds of shellfire, it came on the evening of the 28th. Nearing the coast we could see the beach ahead, and could hear the noise of shellfire and our rocket ships, which were pounding the beaches. As the troops fell back, looters on bicycles braved the continuing shellfire. But any homely illusions were quickly dispelled by Turkish shrapnel and stubborn shellfire, resulting in heavy casualties. On July 28, 1918, Mortimer fell, mortally wounded by shellfire at the Ourcq River. In a bed nearby, a little boy cowered, listening to the thunder of shellfire. His field ambulance had come under shellfire and, despite all attempts to save him, he died. It was German shellfire instantly killing all the men in the bath. Most of the evacuees, taken off the beach aboard small fishing-boats, have been wounded by shellfire. Young boys saunter through it with their Walkmans on, and the simulated whine of shellfire has to compete with the latest music for attention. In Panj Kot, which, until a ceasefire two years ago, was often under Indian shellfire, Mr Bashir is sceptical. Nonetheless, German shellfire and snipers took a significant toll, and in places there was fierce bayonet fighting. The Albert basilica in 1916 after the town had been destroyed by shellfire. It was a chalk country and the vibration from the shellfire was terrific and it didn't smother the shells. Attempts to demolish the Turkish forts guarding the Straits by a mixture of naval shellfire and demolition by landing parties during February 1915 failed. You've got to know the difference between incoming and outgoing shellfire. Situated in a low-lying area reclaimed from marshy lands by means of an elaborate drainage system, the vulnerable terrain was easily and quickly destroyed by shellfire. Years later, General Sir Harry Honour who had been the artillery captain who received the shellfire request, was greatly relieved to learn that the shells had not killed a single Canadian. The pillaging and looting that result from the breakdown of security services, border controls and social order, can, in fact, prove far more damaging than the shellfire and rockets. Show More Sentences One week later, Corporal John Nelson was killed by shellfire and on the 31st, Corporal Donald Stackhouse was killed by a mine while on motorcycle duty. Unfortunately, captured German 'pillboxes', which had been turned into aid-posts and were surrounded with wounded on stretchers, were a magnet for German shellfire. B Company came under heavy shellfire near Ortona. But the leprosy of shellfire eating away at the walls for 15 years and left to lie fallow since the end of the conflict in 1990, looks like a mutilated body as my eye settles upon it. Three of our men were wounded by shellfire. In Flanders, after a short period in reserve, troops of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment fight off stiff German counterattacks at Ledeghem train station, which was preceded by heavy shellfire. We were pinned down by shellfire. If the artillery hadn't run out of shells to shoot at us we would have been wiped out. During the army's last fight in Swat, which ended in February, a small force tried to drive the Taliban from Mingora, the district's biggest city, with shellfire. Sheep graze in grass that now covers an area once pockmarked by shellfire...they wander in and around the pine trees that were planted in memory of the dead. On May 9th and 10th 480 civilian refugees are reported to have been brought dead or dying to a makeshift hospital in the war-zone, victims of shellfire. When I visited the abandoned prison late this summer, a group of disinterested Iraqi forces sat at a checkpoint on the main road to Baghdad, eating watermelon as the distant rumble of shellfire sounded in the distance. She said her house had just been struck by shellfire. It was kind of a protection for shellfire. Villages and artillery shown under heavy shellfire. The village was destroyed by shellfire and its inhabitants forced to flee. He had volunteered to do the double watch to help a sick pal, but Frank himself was suffering from trench fever, starved of sleep and dazed by shellfire. Examples from Classical Literature These men had already seen what shellfire could do to knock the beauty out of old houses and quiet streets. The railways were choked with military transport or destroyed by shellfire. On Monday night the fire was redoubled and the woods literally raked with lines of shellfire. At the nearer edge of the woods, devastated by our shellfire, they encountered little opposition. Therefore, the task of directing the shellfire had to be confided to the airplanes, and in the lagoons to the seaplanes. They had been employed cutting trees, and had been under our own shellfire. That was before they knew the exact meaning of shellfire well. O'Malley sent his catch down through the shellfire, twisting and turning. Find more words! 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