Germany's new submarines in the Mediterranean mounted bigger and more effective guns than had formerly been employed on under-water craft, and they were able to destroy several vessels by shell fire.
They had to cross a zone of shell fire in daylight before they regained their old position, and this was no easy task for men who had lived through such shattering days.
Near Messines, on 12th April, some of our trenches were destroyed by the enemy's shell fire, and several of our men were buried in the ruins.
Lacking proper artillery support, the British used to cheer when the Germans charged, as that meant the end of shell fire, and they could come to close quarters with the bayonet.
Where the armies had operated, lay broad belts of ruins, destroyed at enormous cost by shell fire.
Eventually, all were withdrawn from the fighting, and moved to the grounds of La Motte Château, where they came under very heavy shell fire for a short time.
There was also a considerable amount of shell fire.
Other decorations earned during this period were Military Medals awarded to Corporal Nesbitt and Private Allison of X Company for digging out a man buried by shell fire, under very dangerous conditions.
There were six farms and a windmill blazing, all set alight by shell fire, when these fellows with turbans and with flashing eyes and teeth came up out of the darkness.
Along the roadside lots of trees had been smashed by shell fire, and there were hundreds of graves with rough crosses or little flags to mark them, and every now and then we passed a broken auto or a dead horse lying in the gutter.
A shell fire directed on our positions in the Valley de Chivres was fearful.
Position of tank after action Caught in large tank trap and struck by shell fire.
Extent and nature of hostile Very severe from the momentshell fire of entry into enemy lines.
They are purely auxiliary to the infantry, and are intended to sweep away the obstructions which have hitherto stopped the advance of our infantry beyond the German first line, and cannot with certainty be disposed of by shell fire.
The streets of St. Julien were covered with a curtain of shell fire, whilst the air was filled with the weird sound of the rifle bullets as they rattled a deadly tatoo on the few tiles that remained clinging to the charred and battered roofs.
The town was shot full of holes, about one house out of every ten having been peppered with shell fire.
As they marched down the stone road to St. Julien they came under the intense shell fire, "the curtain of fire," which the Germans were directing against all the approaches to our position along which reinforcements might come.
The village of Neuve Chapelle was just like every other Franco-Fleming village on the firing line, a huddle of houses partly unroofed by shell fire, deserted by the populace, and shunned by the soldiers.
Our Royal Fusiliers were in reserve all the time, and although they never fired a shot were in such a position that they were badly exposed to shell fire, and were within view of snipers, and lost no fewer than 150 men.
Army Corps, perhaps the hottest place toshell fire on the whole peninsula.
He spoke about them retiring out of shell fire for a rest, and after pitching camp a shell fell in the next field.
We hoped to get off quickly, the object of the rest being to take us out of shell fire.
The telephones between Headquarters and the trench were disabled, the wires having been cut again and again by the enemy's shell fire.
Ferris, of the 2nd Field Company of the Canadian Engineers, proved in the face of the enemy that he could keep a road repaired faster than they could destroy it by shell fire.
Colquhoun at the time, and they had together twice been partially buried by shell fire earlier in the morning.
His communications had been cut by shell fire, and he was, therefore, left to decide for himself whether he should retire or whether he should hold on.
The wonderful roads for which France so long had been noted were totally effaced in places, sometimes by shell fire, often with every evidence of having been mined.
Most of the buildings were cut off about the second story by shell fire.
A barrage is a concentration of shell fireon a particular point or frontage so as to make it impassable to the enemy.
The first was to make a renewed assault on a far wider front from Ruined Farm or beyond, on the left, to Piccadilly Farm on the right, and so scatter the enemy's shell fire.
It had been almost continuously under heavy shell fire in hopeless trenches for about sixty hours, during which sleep, rest, or refreshment had been practically out of the question.
No light of fire or even stove, no lights of any kind or everything would be destroyed by shell fire at once.
The score was close and when at the end of the seventh a shell exploded within fifty yards of the diamond and an officer shouted: "Game called on account of shell fire!
They were not permitted to repair the roof because the German airplane observers would notice it and know that some activity was going on there which would call for renewed shell fire.
With a sense of relief he saw Fracasse's men drop for cover at the base of the knoll and then, expectation fulfilled, he realized that rifle-fire now reinforced the enemy's shell fire.
If reserves coming into action see men badly lacerated by shell fire it is bound to make them self-conscious and affect morale.
This might have produced an increase of shell fire, I should fancy, judging from our heavy days' shelling last week.
Wide noble staircases led to vast rooms made untenable by shell fire.
Studying his map, the colonel led the way across some disused trenches, past a lonely burial-place horribly torn and bespattered by shell fire, and up a wide desolate rise.
Strange to relate, the advance of the batteries, which of necessity was carried out through the outskirts of Arras, was not greatly hampered by shell fire.
They had to pass through the same curtain ofshell fire in returning as in charging, and ahead of them through the blasts they drove their prisoners.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shell fire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
