Sentence examples for explosion of a mortar from inspiring English sources
As the heavy explosion of a mortar sounded through the hills, the second in command, who uses the nom de guerre Commander Mjekrra, arrived from across the river.
Naquib's symptoms had appeared after the Taliban took over Kandahar, but he said that the problems might have been caused by the explosion of a Russian mortar shell near him during the jihad.
For hours at a time, the graveyard appeared empty and peaceful, aside from the explosion of an occasional mortar round.
At one end of the aluminum tube the researchers attached a device that uses compressed nitrogen to explode a Mylar membrane, generating force equal to the explosion of a 120-millimeter mortar round.
During the previous year's landing on Saipan, my new platoon sergeant, a onetime trapeze artist from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, had survived (with only a cut lip and a lingering deafness) the explosion of a Jap knee-mortar shell that had vaporized the two other occupants of his foxhole.
Hours after the explosion in Baquba, a mortar volley struck north of Khalis, in the western end of Diyala, killing seven people and wounding 12, according to provincial police officials.
The explosion of the mortar shells hurled the anti-tank missiles into the command post.
"There was a sudden explosion, a mortar round flew through the window and all the equipment was destroyed," said Anna Kravtsova, a doctor at the Vishnevskiy hospital.
Just then an explosion hit the scree not far from us and the sound of a mortar thumped, and everyone started running and getting into their cars and speeding away.
Anatomy of a Mortar Attack.
