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How to use shelling in a sentence

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I have my choice of activities, ranging from kayaking and sailing to snorkeling and shelling.
The cells similarly fire when the monkeys observe a person shelling peanuts and then hear peanut shells being broken apart.
I have witnessed expats shelling seeds with ease so, although I can't speak from experience, I know that it can be done.
My power problem got me thinking that I need to be one of those guys who makes the money, instead of shelling it out all the time.
As we neared the shore we were ordered to keep down to avoid getting wounded should the enemy start shelling the incoming craft.
Despite heavy shelling, mortaring and machine gun fire, within about an hour they made it off the beach.
He said that there had been no discernible decline in sporadic artillery shelling or small arms fire.
Steady shelling was going on, and there were occasional spatters of machine gun fire through the smashed windows of her refuge.
In the heat of battle no gunnery officer had the time to consult a table before aiming at an incoming bomber or shelling an enemy position.
The group of newsmen including foreign journalists who visited the area had a first hand experience of trans-border shelling.
For inside the mill, the shelling stones began to turn, the riddles rhythmically shook and the millstones ground round and round.
They were shelling us like the devil when we landed at Gold Beach all those years ago.
The clashes occurred as Burma accused Thailand of shelling its territory to help ethnic Shan rebels.
Sponsors are shelling out to keep its City-to-City tour going and not even asking for anything in return.
The city inched rather than slid towards capture and after a while the shelling all but paralysed our movement.
In some towns old buildings have been demolished and replaced with monstrous modern carbuncles, a sure sign of shelling.
Taxi users are shelling out almost double to get to their destinations during rush hour in Colchester.
If you are thinking of gifting them, consider shelling out around a lakh of rupees or more.
Like him, I sat for ages removing all those fiddly little stalks, or shelling peas and beans.
After passing through a very heavy shelling for 20 minutes we rested and then formed a line of battle.
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I hear the 76th Battery got its share of shelling the other day, and a bombardier was killed.
When they start shelling from underwater, the soviets are sure going to be surprised.
We laid siege to New Bern and were soon under heavy shelling from the Yankee gunboats.
My mother, who was peeling potatoes with difficulty in wash-leather gloves, looked at my aunt who was shelling peas.
Boers began attack at daybreak with two or three guns and a pompom, shelling the position hard.
Then came the sight of Abijah Flagg shelling beans in the barn, and then the Perkins attic windows with a white cloth fluttering from them.
But years ago our mothers spent hours preparing meals, rolling pastry, shelling peas, grating carrots or churning meat though the mincer.
As we sailed in to Langa-Langa, the British cruiser, the Cambrian, steamed out from the shelling of a village.
Captain Robbins ordered everyone into the abris till the shelling ceased.
If you are doing a sitting down job like shelling beans or grating turnips for kraut, keep your feet in a dishpan of cold water.
Troops may be exposed to desultory shelling during the day or night.
Tiare, when I told her this story, praised my prudence, and for a few minutes we worked in silence, for we were shelling peas.
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