Sentence examples for a hail of shot from inspiring English sources

Unscathed by a hail of shot which came within inches, he went forward and silenced two bunkers.

A hail of shot was then unleashed by the Farnborough's remaining crew from their six-pounder gun and several machine guns into the stationary submarine.

Long on the run, hunted by 1,000 special-forces troops and police through the leafy "jangalmahal" of West Bengal, he was, say officials, struck by a hail of shots to his chest in a dramatic shoot-out.

Carpet-bagging politicians rolled up in Mercedes cars with tinted windows, alongside turbaned Shia clerics and baggy-trousered Druze elders.But the most popular entertainment came from local lads who, egged on by journalists, vied to see how close they could get to the Israeli fastness before bringing down a hail of warning shots.

The French shore batteries had also proved to be much more than a match, and the ships were pounded until the rigging and hulls were badly damaged; the ensign of Phips' flagship the Six Friends was cut down and fell into the river, and under a hail of musket shots, a daring group of Canadians paddled a canoe up to the ships to capture it.

But it provoked a hail of return fire — 39 shots, 5 or 6 of which hit her (and some of which struck other policemen).

Bessières and Nansouty led these men forward, through a hail of cannonballs and case-shot, with the carabiniers-à-cheval at the front.

Every time we turned a corner I expected to meet a hail of bullets, but thankfully not a shot was fired.

Moments later the men are killed a hail of automatic gunfire, followed by individual shots to the head from a Taliban fighter who moves down the line of bodies, trailed by the camera.

Even the "bad guy" who gets sacrificed goes down not in a hail of bullets, but in a modest single shot.

His lawyer said these had been warning shots - responding to a hail of missiles - and cited an autopsy report indicating the boy had been hit by a ricocheting bullet.