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tank shell

NOUN
  1. a shell fired by the cannon on a tank

How To Use tank shell In A Sentence

  • Just as they reached it a tank shell sailed into the first house and flattened it. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
  • In one of the workshops, veteran metalworker Kemal Hidic was turning old tank shells into engraved vases. A new look at Bosnia Herzegovina
  • There it met a shaped armour-piercing charge in the form of an anti-tank shell, the sort of thing that slices through armour plate to a depth of seven or eight times its own diameter. The Edge of Madness
  • Meanwhile, government troops continued to pound the town of Rastan with field artillery and tank shells Thursday, leaving the town without electricity, water and phones for a sixth straight day.
  • Depleted uranium is used to make anti-tank shells more deadly, and tank armour less penetrable.
  • Just as they reached it a tank shell sailed into the first house and flattened it. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
  • Two years later in the crisis of October 1993, it took only a few tank shells to flush a straggle of defiant Supreme Soviet deputies out of the White House. The Return
  • The army positioned snipers on rooftops, witnesses said, and fired a tank shell at an electricity transformer, plunging the camp into darkness.
  • Sixty sticks of dynamite were found, plus pipe bombs, a live anti-tank shell and stolen student ID cards from campuses across the country.
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