Sentence examples for mortars down from inspiring English sources

The Green Berets spent three sleepless nights holding their ground as the Iraqis lobbed artillery and mortars down on them.

In hindsight, this was a great way to make the enemy aware of our location so they could drop mortars down on us.

As well as the usual human and vehicle suicide bombs, improvised explosive devices, grenade attacks and targeted assassinations, al-Shabab has in 2014 started raining mortars down on several districts of Mogadishu during the night.

Gerald Girardi's father was also a bricklayer, a stern and exacting worker who was known to sometimes fling mortar down from his ladder upon the heads of incompetent helpers.

Don't put any mortar down yet.

"We have mortars pinned down and fire coming from everywhere".

Last year mortars rained down on the base nearly every other day.

Yet during the day, when the regime sends fewer rockets and mortars hurtling down, those that remain go about their business as best they can.

They packed what they could as the mortars rained down, grabbed some jewellery, rolled up some Persian carpets and squeezed themselves onto the SS Argentina.

First, they must endure the insanity of war, fighting off fedayeen ambushes, withstanding the suicide bombings and mortars, kicking down doors and searching homes.

On July 24th a double car-bombing killed nearly two-dozen people in a middle-class neighbourhood, mortars rained down on police and army bases, and a prominent Sunni politician was kidnapped from his home.