Sentence examples for a hail of shells from inspiring English sources

In a hail of shells, Defences ammunition magazines detonated and the ship was sunk.

These 1½ hours that I spent in a hail of shell and splinters aboard the torpedoboat I shall not be likely to forget".

Sheets of enemy gunfire and a hail of mortar shells pinned down Sgt. Martin Russ and his platoon of Marines when they ventured into the no man's land between North and South Korea in the summer of 1953 -- the last days of the Korean War.

The air was filled with a hail of bullets and shells.

In the clash of traditional mass armies, under a hail of arrows or artillery shells, human warriors often found themselves confused and overwhelmed, a condition attributed to "the fog of war".

The war underground has gone largely unrecognised, while history has focused on men pouring over the tops of trenches into a hail of bullets and artillery shell explosions.

A hail of toy animals rained onto the ice.

The seal soon disappeared in a hail of ridicule.

A hail of silver bullets, page 76.

Both died in a hail of bullets.

Occupy Manchester Was a Hail of Dicks.