Sentence examples for shelling started from inspiring English sources

"The shelling started around 3pm," said Abu Jaffour.

Heavy shelling started around 9 a.m. on Monday, Ismail said, as a large military convoy that included tanks appeared on the town's outskirts.

"Our television showed how the shelling started, the incursion of Georgian forces, and so on," Zolotarev, who helped draft Russia's national-security doctrine in the nineteen-nineties, said.

It was early on Tuesday evening, and Aijaz Abdulaha had returned from a day in his fields in this valley surrounded by towering mountains when the shelling started.

"The tally that we have received from various activists in Homs since the shelling started at six this morning is 50, mostly civilians," Catherine al-Talli of the Syrian National Council told Reuters.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — It seemed promising until the shelling started: under a brief cease-fire, 200 civilians were preparing to evacuate on Wednesday from a rebel-held town near Damascus that the government has blockaded for months.

But in the end, when the shelling starts, you don't get to choose, you just run to the closest basement.

Once the shelling starts, however, Barker falls back on stereotyped images — a screaming horse straight out of "Guernica"; boarded-up buildings "like black teeth in a smile".

Activists in Homs said that during the most intense periods of shelling, starting around first light on Tuesday, rockets and tank shells whistled into the embattled Baba Amr neighborhood as often as every two minutes.

But soon shells started falling nearby, eventually destroying our water tank and splintering our walls.

The niece of one of the dead men showed the blood stains on the wooden floor where she said her uncle, Idriz Ajdari, 51, and his wife, Hirijete, were eating when the shells started falling.