Sentence examples for war shelling from inspiring English sources

Outlining his case, the 67-year-old said he would be claiming – as other Serb officials have unsuccessfully tried to do – that the Bosnian government was the aggressor in the war, shelling and sniping at its own civilians.

They have survived war, shelling, injuries and even torture.

"In a real war shells explode, bullets fly, bodies fall, blood flows," he said.

John Emmett never recovered from the war; shell-shocked, incarcerated, he apparently took his own life.

When I worked at the American University Hospital, in West Beirut, during the Lebanese civil war, shells often whizzed over our heads.

Its plan was to install a subglacial railway and shuttle ICBMs around in a Cold War shell game.

In the civil war, they called it soldier's heart; in the first world war, shell-shock; in the second, battle fatigue.

Léa Le Bricomte, 27, whose work with bullets, missiles and real medals has often caused problems with international transport, has attached skateboard wheels to first world war shells.

As Pepe regaled them with stories of the first days of the war, shells began to rain down and he coolly counted the explosions as he poured wine.

"Towards the end of the morning, a passenger heading for Britain tried to catch a train with a first world war or second world war shell in his bag," a spokesperson for national rail firm SNCF said.

In a clip shared on social media, BBC engineers recorded French soldiers blowing up a first world war shell, freshly ploughed up by a farmer, so that Tommies' sound effects would be authentic.