Sentence examples for shell flying from inspiring English sources

The Western planes had struck an ammunition depot at a military base nearby, he said, and the explosion had sent a tank shell flying into the bedroom of the baby, a boy, in a civilian's home.

Last July, Michael Colombini, 6, was undergoing a magnetic resonance imaging test at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., when a 6.5-pound metal oxygen tank that an anesthesiologist had brought into the room was pulled into the machine by its magnetic field, striking the boy's head with the force of an artillery shell flying at 20 feet per second.

Those tears weren't from a stray bullet shell flying into someone's eye, she said they were from the flood of emotion that one can only feel when getting married at a gun range.

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.

One piece of shell flew through a room from one window to another.

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.

The blasts sent artillery and mortar shells flying over nearby residential neighborhoods destroying several houses, and placing children and their families in jeopardy.

Scores of shells fly each day from bases atop Mount Qasioun, overlooking the city.