Sentence examples for unexploded shells from inspiring English sources

Unexploded shells were scattered round the area.

Jahan Mahmood doesn't bring out his stash of unexploded shells straight away.

Unexploded shells and landmines littered the countryside, often underwater in the paddy fields where peasants waded.

Land mines, unexploded shells and other remnants of 22 years of war kill and maim thousands of Afghans every year.

To kill time, Titch and Etherington would walk the dunes looking for unexploded shells from the war.

Macabre museums of unexploded shells, warheads and mines have sprung up around the city since bombing by Muammar Gaddafi's forces and Nato airstrikes began.

Most people stay away, fearing that they will step on a land mine or an unexploded shell.

One unexploded shell sat on the ground beneath a pupil's chair in the middle of the street.

Experts say that simply walking on soil over an unexploded shell is unlikely to set it off.

Her mother was a cashier at the ice-rink, her father lost a leg aged 12 while playing with an unexploded shell in the second world war.

Years after the war, Macintyre tells us, Robert Dessenne, a cousin of Claire's who was named for Digby, "was plowing in the fields when he struck an unexploded shell, and was blown to pieces".