How To Use Shellfire In A Sentence
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Shellfire damaged the brickwork of the ziggurat at Ur, which was constructed in 2100 B.C.
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The two-day truce collapsed in intense shellfire.
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It was some weeks now since they had had any respite from shellfire against this dismal backcloth.
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For many of the British the battle resembled Mons: determined infantry assaults prepared by heavy shellfire, met with accurate rifle fire.
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It was some weeks now since they had had any respite from shellfire against this dismal backcloth.
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He and his mates were bogged down on the beach at Anzio for three months, living ‘like moles’ under constant German shellfire: ‘Our only shelter were holes we dug for ourselves in the beach.’
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It was German shellfire instantly killing all the men in the bath.
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I went over a level-crossing on a motorbike, under shellfire from a tank.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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For many of the British the battle resembled Mons: determined infantry assaults prepared by heavy shellfire, met with accurate rifle fire.
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Not visible on the surface are the miles of tunnels, dug deep enough to offer protection from the incessant shellfire, where visitors can retrace the steps of soldiers moving up to the front, ready to go ‘over the top’.
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You've got to know the difference between incoming and outgoing shellfire.
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Reims' stained glass gives an idea of the risks: reglazed in the sixteenth century, replaced higgledy-piggledy during releading in the eighteenth, wrecked by hail in the nineteenth and finished off by shellfire in the twentieth.
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The city has been under continuous shellfire for days now.
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He landed at Gallipoli on 2 September, and lived the life of a chaplain: arranging burial ceremonies, writing to families, holding services in the Anglican rites, visiting the men under shellfire and sniping.
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From here, a retired military man, a saintly figure suffering from cancer called Jerry Hume, working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ran a lifeline of basic supplies (plus the less essential, occasional journalist) into the inferno of shellfire.
War Child and the Bosnian war 15 years on
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Israeli shelling kills 2 Gaza militants: Israeli shellfire killed two Palestinian militants and wounded six people, including a 10-year-old girl, in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers and an official with a militant group said.
Former North Korean spy visits Japan
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The uproar reached a climax in late afternoon—“We had given ourselves up for lost, since we were just about to be discovered and killed”—when, after a sudden burst of shellfire, the noise stopped.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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The trenches were constantly being destroyed, either by enemy shellfire, or water damage.
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The boxes are given to families many of whom are living in appalling conditions such as old railway trucks, buildings partly destroyed by shellfire and in extreme cases, sewers.
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When the troops actually got into this situation and found, you know, these hills denuded by naval shellfire and things like this, basically only then did they actually discover what the true nature of the terrain was.
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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.
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And of course a lot of the cows had been hit by shellfire.
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But any homely illusions were quickly dispelled by Turkish shrapnel and stubborn shellfire, resulting in heavy casualties.
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It was some weeks now since they had had any respite from shellfire.
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In a bed nearby, a little boy cowered, listening to the thunder of shellfire.
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Added aggravations are a troublesome long-term refugee problem, periodic cross-border shellfire and a torrent of illegal drugs - the current favorite being amphetamines which are flooding the country.
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Attempts to demolish the Turkish forts guarding the Straits by a mixture of naval shellfire and demolition by landing parties during February 1915 failed.
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On July 28, 1918, Mortimer fell, mortally wounded by shellfire at the Ourcq River.
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His field ambulance had come under shellfire and, despite all attempts to save him, he died.
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After one more probe, accompanied by 4,000 rounds of shellfire, it came on the evening of the 28th.
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There was still a lot of shellfire when we got there and we had to drive the boats as far up the beach as they would go and then start unloading the lorries and jeeps and supplies into the sea, all the time with shells exploding overhead.
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We deal with families living in awful conditions - in old railway trucks, buildings partly destroyed by shellfire and even with street kids who live in sewers.
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Reims' stained glass gives an idea of the risks: reglazed in the sixteenth century, replaced higgledy-piggledy during releading in the eighteenth, wrecked by hail in the nineteenth and finished off by shellfire in the twentieth.
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The rocket and shellfire for a third day at the port is preventing international aid ships from reaching the city that is controlled by rebels but surrounded by government forces.
Libyan Crowds Mourn Gadhafi's Son as Battles Continue
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The following day the capital was under shellfire.
Reluctant revolutionary: the rocky road of Venustiano Carranza (1859–1920)
