Sentence examples for intensive shelling from inspiring English sources

Adding to the mood here, tours around the inner fortifications take place to a soundtrack of intensive shelling.

It lived up to expectations, with towns on either side of the battles between rebel forces and besieged government troops suffering intensive shelling.

The ground incursion which began on 3 January 2009 was preceded by intensive shelling from air and sea along the entire length of the border inside Gaza.

The military has replied with intensive shelling and repeated airstrikes.

The city was subject to intensive shelling in 1948, when more than 60,000 of its residents were forced to leave – mostly fleeing to Gaza.

A government doctor said at least 378 civilians — and perhaps as many as 1,000 — had been killed and more than 1,100 wounded on Saturday and Sunday during intensive shelling of the combat zone on Sri Lanka's northeastern coast, a boggy sliver of beachfront where Sri Lankan troops have surrounded Tamil separatist fighters.

It came during rebel attempts to push towards regime-held districts of the capital, which were being rebuffed by intensive shell fire from Syrian units.

As HuffPost previously reported, management at Trump's Las Vegas hotel waged an intensive anti-union campaign ahead of the election, shelling out more than half a million dollars to consultants in an effort to persuade workers to vote no.

Many have experienced shelling.

The nine days of intensive coaching and questioning for which they shelled out $1,500 will begin to seep in.

The Germans, meanwhile, were well aware that an offensive was coming from the Ypres salient: the flatness of the plain prevented any concealment of Haig's preparations, and a fortnight's intensive bombardment (4,500,000 shells from 3,000 guns) served to underline the obvious without, however, destroying the German machine gunners' concrete pillboxes.