Sentence examples for a shell from a from inspiring English sources

Above, a supporter of the Sandinistas launches a shell from a homemade mortar.

On the hillside above Eristos, a shell from a war-time British destroyer opened the entrance of a cave that had been closed for 6,000 years.

I was passing the King and Keys one day when I was almost killed by a projectile emerging from it like a shell from a howitzer.

The wall, made of dry-stacked quartzite, runs along only the north and west and is pulled out from the body of the house almost like a shell from a mollusk, with a strip of skylight acting like connecting tissue.

It said a tank had fired a shell from a spot near the crowd, but in another direction, toward a Palestinian who was firing a rocket-propelled grenade at the retreating Israelis.

Shortly after he managed to disable it, he was killed a shell from a German tank.

Also Thursday, Palestinian reports said that a girl, 17, had been killed by a shell from an Israeli tank in central Gaza and that several others had been wounded.

The flotilla was targeted by hostile aircraft, while a shell from an Ottoman shore battery hit the mess deck of the Requin, causing 38 casualties.

The ostensible narcissism with which its characters have been tagged will inevitably turn out to be a shell from which they emerge as a mark of their maturation.

It's a shell from the Civil War".

Professor Crouch's idea is that we may be entering a phase in which the energy is ebbing from the democratic process, in which turnout is largely on the wane, and in which democracy may become, increasingly, a shell from within which a socioeconomic elite actually runs things.