SHELLING


Meaning of SHELLING in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Soon after dawn there was another round of heavy shelling in the eastern part of the city.

The shelling of the town continued well into the night.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Five days and four nights subjected to shelling and mortaring and the ever-present sniping.

It was almost dark now and everyone had settled into their dugouts, prepared for another night of shelling and mortaring.

It was midnight and the mortaring and shelling had started about 11 p.m.

On March 13 heavy shelling was resumed, following a warning from Aoun that mediation efforts had made no progress.

The shelling was resumed, and the machine gun finally knocked out by a heavy shell.

The constant mortaring and shelling of the area had dislodged a few of the corpses and the flies and mosquitoes were everywhere.

The sounds of gunfire and shelling didn't do anything to calm my fears.

They appeared completely unconcerned about the shelling going on around them.

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