Sentence examples for was shot away from inspiring English sources

It too suffered when its cocaine mob, led by Pablo Escobar, was shot away—literally in 1993.

His rifle was shot away from him and he was wounded by enemy grenades, but he dispatched five Communist emplacements by tossing grenades at them.

Victory's wheel was shot away, and another cannonball cut down eight marines.

At the same time, her foretopsail halyard was shot away causing the ship to lose maneuverability.

At 9 15 the Montagu engaged the Diligente, which struck after her maintopmast was shot away.

Venerable took the worst of the early action and at 05 30 the mizen topmast was shot away.

Putnam's guts had been shot away and nothing could be done but to give him morphine.

When the pawn cover has been shot away and the two kings are exposed on an open board, the action is bound to be explosive.

The injured guy was on the verge of passing out and couldn't move his face or say anything because his cheek had been shot away, and his airways were blocked.

Found it impossible either to extinguish fire or feather prop, and had to have rudder tied by engineer to maintain straight flight, as the rudder trimmers had been shot away.

When I arrived at Bahrain Airport in 1968, the officer who'd asked me to go out there passed me in the other direction and I noticed that his shoulder had been shot away; there was a D-notice on the war at the time for journalists, it was a bad situation.