shellfire
IPA: ʃˈɛɫfaɪr
noun
- Artillery bombardment.
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Examples of "shellfire" in Sentences
- The following day the capital was under shellfire.
- It had been badly damaged by shellfire, but was empty.
- The north ammunition magazine was penetrated by shellfire.
- At one point Savige ran through heavy shellfire on an errand.
- McSweeney was killed by shellfire during the last days of the Great ar.
- The next day, she sank an enemy barge with shellfire near Green Island.
- On her second trip, she was hit by shellfire and was extensively damaged.
- I enlarged the shellfire image to 250px, but that really doesn't do much.
- During the war Musharraf was noted for sticking to his post under shellfire.
- He also had to repair field telephone wires that had been damaged by shellfire.
- Throughout the day, the Australians came under heavy shellfire from the Germans.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.