NOUN
- (military) bomb consisting of an explosive projectile filled with a toxic gas that is released when the bomb explodes
How To Use gas shell In A Sentence
- Artillery guns were also used to fire gas shells to deliver poisonous gas onto the enemy.
- Police wielded batons and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse crowds and take control of the streets.
- French developers building homes or roads on land which was once the scene of fierce fighting have to check the ground for unexploded bombs and gas shells.
- On this occasion I went over the hillside farm, and the same thing happened; the Germans spent most of the night in heaving shrapnel and high-explosive gas shells into us, and at dawn they dropped one of the heaviest protective barrages for their own men that I have ever seen them start, but they were not quite on to the game our boys had played, because half an hour before, our men, with the companies that were supporting them, crept out into No Man's Land as close up to the German trenches as they could get with any degree of safety, so that when the Germans dropped their barrage on the front line there was nobody there but the wounded. The Artillery at Passchendaele
- Mixed into the ear-splitting crack of high explosive they now heard the softer ` phut " of gas shells. DARE CALL IT TREASON
- His specific war was World War I, but his poems, though containing references to the "Boche," trenches, the Western Front, the hissing of gas shells and other words and phrases identifiable with the 1914-1918 war — his "subject," he said, "is War, and the pity of War. “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
- Mixed into the ear-splitting crack of high explosive they now heard the softer `phut" of gas shells. DARE CALL IT TREASON
