Sentence examples for flying shells from inspiring English sources

Several buildings were damaged by flying shells.

Whole gun crews were killed by flying shells.

Safety goggles will protect the eyes from flying shells, hot gasses, and lead particulates as they're ejected from the weapon.

The powder, ignited by a simple fuze, opened the shell over concentrations of enemy troops, and the balls, with velocity imparted by the flying shell, had the effect of musket fire delivered at long range.

Banana peels and flying turtle shells may not be realistic hazards on the road, but it turns out playing the video game "Mario Kart" really does prepare you for the real-world driver's seat. .

Turns out flying turtle shells are just as destructive to vehicles IRL as they are in Mario Kart, as one woman in Florida found this week driving along Interstate 4, FOX reports.

For a shot of a shell casing flying upwards, the shell had to be dropped in front of the camera in forward motion, but it constantly rolled out of frame.

Russian artillery here send 122-millimeter shells flying toward the city, and attack helicopters hover overhead.

The sheer quantity of bullets and shells flying through the air in the battle conditions of that war compelled soldiers to burrow into the soil to obtain shelter and survive.

For the next month, hundreds of thousands of soldiers on opposing sides attacked and counterattacked across sodden, porridge-like mud, in an open, grey landscape almost empty of buildings or natural cover, all under the relentless, harrowing rain of exploding shells, flying shrapnel, and machine-gun fire.

Some of the descriptions in his war diaries are among the best things he ever wrote: As I sit in the sun in a nook among the sandbags and chalky debris, with shells flying overhead in the blue air, a lark sings high up, and a little weasel comes and runs past me within a foot of my outstretched foot, looking at me with tiny bright eyes.