Sentence examples similar to dropped shells from inspiring English sources

As a result, soldiers were forced to drop shells from the helicopters by hand, destroying much of the camp, when they might have been able to pinpoint the Islamist fighters.

"He dropped four million shells on our heads, and we had to shell ourselves!" the driver said.

Mr. Arafat has been restricted to Ramallah since December, much of the time in his compound, around which Israelis dropped numerous shells in the past week.

The wind blew a constant, high-pitched scream through the trees; waves pounded ever more insistently on the beach; rain lashed at the bure and into the windows, and coconuts dropped like shells.

We'll know what the spectators ate, from dropped oyster shells and hazel nuts; what they wore, from dress hooks and little metal tips of laces; what they drank, from broken ale mugs and wine cups (the beer shop may well have been at the entrance, almost certainly where a small Victorian pub now stands); and even where they peed when they'd drunk too much.

He goes back and drops the shells," apparently reloading, he said.

We follow the example of the city suits in their fashionably nerdy lens-less glasses and drop the shells on the floor.

As pH drops, the shells and skeletons of some marine life can literally dissolve away.

Perhaps he had seen gulls drop the shells from a great height to the rocks below and perceived that there was something tasty inside.

The herring gull (Larus argentatus) sometimes drops heavy shells onto rocks in order to crack them open.

Growers build reefs on their leased grounds by dropping old shells and limestone to provide habitat for the oysters' reproductive cycle.