Sentence examples for empty shell casings from inspiring English sources
When it ended, smoke curled above Parliament House and hundreds of empty shell casings lay scattered on the ground.
Insurgents also have adopted a tactic of planting empty shell casings and wiring in an obvious spot to draw the attention of American forces, said a military officer in Baghdad.
The job of staff in NFF Number Nine was to take empty shell casings delivered to the factory and fill them with a hot liquid explosive after painting them inside and out to ensure the volatile chemicals did not react with the metal and detonate.
Even so, the image of the blind boy reaching for a necklace strung with bullets, or howling into a stack of empty shell casings — the only playground open to the children being a rusty graveyard of spent military hardware — may leave some viewers almost unable to cope.
Revolvers operate with a revolving cylinder for a magazine, in which you load the ammunition and from which you must remove the empty shell casings.
Several months before graduating from high school, he found what he thought was an empty shell casing in the street.
Wreckage from the chaos was scattered every few meters — an empty shell casing here, a live mortar round there.
The parties are not entirely empty shells.
Our schools are empty shells.
Many of them are empty shells.
