Sentence examples for shelled from inspiring English sources

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shelled

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Past of shell

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Bank of America, which has already shelled out $40bn in clean-up costs for its acquisition of Countrywide, made a paltry $4.2bn in net income last year: one-fifth of the income of JP Morgan.

Speaking to the Guardian after talking to her nephew who works at the hospital, Shalltoot said: "People can't believe this is happening - that a medical hospital was shelled without the briefest warning.

On a street nearby, Janet Ebi shelled periwinkles picked from the murky swamps close to the compound where Jonathan grew up.

Shoppers at the national chain of Costco stores who shelled out extra bucks for the lavish Ultimate Toy Box set were alarmed to find that their copies contained scenes that didn't quite fit with the Pixel universe.

We were relying on food stores in the city but most of them have been shelled now.

The logic, I assume, is that such availability might harm the interests of those broadcasters who have shelled out to the IOC for broadcast rights in their own countries.

Rebels said government forces shelled Donetsk airport around 10am, where Ukrainian forces have retained a toehold despite fierce close-quarter combat between the two sides since the nominal ceasefire began on 5 September.

Nor is it an inexplicable peculiarity that people with no reliable source of income had shelled out what little they had, and more, on Tiens products.

At least four people were killed when the al-Aqsa hospital was shelled in central Gaza, without warning according to officials.

27 February: A mosque in Baba Amr is filmed being shelled.

A British doctor who left his home, family and job in the UK to help civilians wounded by the conflict in Syria has died after the makeshift hospital he was working in was shelled.

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