Sentence examples for a shelling attack from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a shelling attack" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a military action involving the bombardment of a target with artillery shells.
Example: "The city suffered significant damage due to a shelling attack that lasted several hours."
Alternatives: "artillery bombardment" or "cannonade".

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Colvin died in February 2012 after a shelling attack on the city of Homs.

Colvin, who had reported from the front lines of war for the Sunday Times for the past two decades, was killed in a shelling attack.

On Saturday, a gruesome video was also released showing the aftermath of a shelling attack in Donetsk Thursday, which killed 38-year-old Swiss Red Cross Worker Laurent DuPasquier.

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She was a victim of a shell attack by the Syrian army on a building that had been turned into an impromptu press centre by the rebels.

I was writing a book on Liberia, and I found an essay he'd written (reproduced in Testament) about a shell attack in Monrovia.

In a moving story of bravery and courage, ten year old Ayesha lives with her granny in Beirut, a bombed out city divided by civil war, following the death of her mother in a shell attack.

Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation and the owner of The Sunday Times, saluted Ms. Colvin as "one of the most outstanding foreign correspondents of her generation," and said in an e-mail to the paper's staff she "was a victim of a shell attack by the Syrian Army on a building that had been turned into an impromptu press center by the rebels.

Three people have been killed and many wounded in a shell attack at a hospital in the rebel-held area of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.

Russia's Ministry of Defence has shown journalists what it says is the aftermath of a shell attack on its soil on Sunday, which killed one man.

But as Mr. Gingrich tours the state by bus in the final days of an increasingly bitter campaign, he is wielding Nice Newt — or trying to — as a kind of last defense against a shelling of attack ads, ridicule from opponents and a drip-drip-drip of tough news coverage that has clearly blunted his surge to near-front-runner status.

In fact, from certain perspectives, incidents like yesterday's shelling attack are quite helpful for American diplomacy.

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