The phrase "a shell burst" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military actions, explosions, or descriptions of combat scenarios.
Example: "The soldiers took cover as a shell burst nearby, sending debris flying in all directions."
Alternatives: "an explosion" or "a shell explosion".
At the moment this was mentioned, a shell burst.
"In one battery a shell burst and killed 20, the rest ran.
Suddenly a shell burst close above my head with a frightful crash and I felt a blow just like an iron mallet".
He had just saved an archive dating back to the 14th century, and persuaded Canadian troops not to dynamite the medieval Steintor city gate at nearby Goch.On 10 March Balfour ventured beyond allied lines with two German civilians to try to protect historic church artefacts and was killed by a shell burst while moving parts of a medieval altarpiece to safety.
In the afternoon of the 27 March 1917, a shell burst in a sunken road to the east of Lagnicourt, killing Cherry and several other men.
A shell burst on the nine-inch armour belt abreast the engine room and drove a 16 by armour plate about two feet inboard and ruptured the port engine's feedwater tank.
Here instead were long, dismal years of attrition symbolised by unknown men in gas masks, fumbling night patrols, the horror of a shell bursting overhead and a horizon limited to bits of no man's land.
Ritu Menon, founder of Women Unlimited, India's oldest feminist press Daniyal Mueenuddin's outstanding collection of short stories, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, is rooted in a rural landscape, like the stories of RK Narayan, but is far blacker than Narayan's work, with the trajectory of each story ending in a shell-burst of loss and tragedy.
Mercer was trapped in a dugout and then stunned by a huge shell burst which wounded most of his staff and the officers of the battalion he was inspecting.
On April 3, 2003, shortly after American troops invaded Iraq, Sergeant Feldbusch was guarding the Haditha Dam northwest of Baghdad when an artillery shell burst 100 feet away and an inchlong piece of shrapnel struck his face.
At 10 41 a 283 mm shell burst against the eight-inch armour of 'A' barbette, but only started a small fire in the 'A' turret lobby that was quickly put out, although the magazine was partially flooded when a false report was received that it was on fire as well.
