Sentence examples for firing shells from inspiring English sources

The North Vietnamese had captured some guns from the Americans - and there were huge guns firing shells on us..

I don't know if it was the same place, but I still imagine those sixteen-inch guns firing shells with the mass of Volkswagens into a camp made of cardboard and tin cans.

Witnesses said the stone-throwing clash at Karni turned into a gun battle between soldiers and Palestinian policemen, with Israeli tanks firing shells at a building used as cover by the Palestinian officers.

They are here to see Shooting Into The Corner, part of the current Anish Kapoor exhibition, and a work that consists of a cannon firing shells of red wax through a doorway into the Small Weston Room at 20-minute intervals.

Shaul Mofaz, the defence minister who is touring Israel's borders with Gaza, said: "As long as it's not quiet here [in Israel], it won't be quiet there [in Gaza]." Israeli forces have been firing shells close to Palestinian communities to stop militants from firing rockets at Israeli communities.

"The Syrian rebels are firing shells all over; they do not care who they are shelling and they do not care who they are fighting," said Hassan Nasserdine, a resident of Hawsh Sayyed Ali living just steps from the Syrian border.

In response, Israeli forces fired shells into Gaza.

When planes were absent, Iraqis re-emerged and fired shells.

In December, the North threatened to fire shells into the disputed waters to enforce its claims.

Later, both militaries fired shells, but they did not attack each other, nor did their shells cross the Northern Limit Line.

The advantage was that the gunners could fire shells to explode over troop positions, showering them with deadly shell fragments.