Sentence examples for heard shelling from inspiring English sources

"Later I heard shelling from the sea and the sounded of a warship's siren.

We'd heard shelling in the distance.

People on the Jordanian side, about a half-mile from the Syrian border gate, said they heard shelling and gunfire regularly.

Residents said they had heard shelling during the night and a shell struck a chemical plant in the city, causing a fire.

Having waited for more than four hours at the checkpoint to hand over his application, he heard shelling and got scared, and decided to return to Donetsk.

In the capital, Damascus, residents reached by Skype said they had heard an explosion in Al Hareika, an old market neighborhood in the city center, and had heard shelling in northern suburbs including Yelda, Yebla and Al Tadamon.

"I was sleeping at home with my family when I heard shells falling nearby," he said.

"On calls with Rami I often heard shells whizzing by," said Shakeeb al-Jabri, writing on the Syrian activists' Web site Al Ayyam.

Sounds of gunfire and explosions are common background noise on calls with activists in Homs (and elsewhere in Syria) but on calls with Rami I often heard shells whizzing by.

The BBC's Lyce Doucet said that before the message was given she heard shell and rocket fire from Israeli and Hamas forces.

I heard shells exploding in the background over Skype while I interviewed the Moadamia natives.