He still pushed on, and then I was shot through the leg and took shelter in a shell hole.
Long marches to and from the line, shell hole bivouacs, heavy working parties, bad weather and severe shelling had all had their effect, and a period of rest and reorganisation was needed.
Turner marshalled his bag in a shell hole outside, and the next morning was found with them, all apparently quite content to be under the leadership of one British private, outside Neuville-Vitasse.
He stated that he had been uncertain of his position and so had crawled into a shell hole.
They had advanced, as the barrage lifted, and he was kneeling in a shell hole looking at his watch waiting for the moment to charge again, when a machine gun opened fire and he was hit in the head and killed instantly.
I made the runner go down into a shell hole, while I read the burial service, and then took off the ring.
We made a small mound where the body lay, and then by quick dashes from shell hole to shell hole we got back at last to the communication trench, and I was indeed thankful to feel that my mission had been successful.
I took him down to a place were a battalion was camped, and there I had to stop and bury some men in a shell hole.
When last seen he was lying wounded in a shell hole at the most advanced point of the narrow and dangerous salient carved by the Ulstermen in the enemy lines, shouting encouragement to his company.
Although wounded in the arm, Captain Barry succeeded in pulling his comrade into a shell hole, and dressing his wound.
Troops were moving through those fields, undoubtedly, advancing in single file through communication trenches or dashing from shell hole to shell hole; other troops lingered in dugouts underground.
Chester, lying in a shell hole with, his bag, of grenades open before him, felt a shock on his back.
Chester, leaping clear at the instant of the impact, stumbled and fell on his face and rolled down a shell hole.
Fat would be in a shell hole almost as soon as the first shot was fired, and would laugh at Bink looking for a hole to hide in.
Well, over the top we went and we got to the place he had pointed out; we had barely lain down in a shell hole when whiz-bang!
He was blown into a shell hole, of that I'm pretty sure.
At times the four Brothers would be close to one another, converging to get out of the line of some trench or avoid a shell hole.
Yes, he's got a swell place--in a shell hole, and Franz is with him.
Incredible as it may seem, he regained his own lines the fourth day by crawling from shell hole to shell hole, and started back to the hospital with every prospect of a quick recovery.
I'll sleep alone on this spot with my thoughts tonight," said the saddened general, and he did, spending the night in a shell hole.
Goward managed to roll into a shell hole, where he died in a short time.
The first thing Reggie did was to kick a tin and fall into a shell hole, where he was joined by Shorty.
He grinned again, and turned round just in time to see the garage assistant next to him fall forward into a shell hole, and lie with his head stuck in the slimy ooze at the bottom.
It showed the Kid the only other near occupant of the reclaimed territory at the moment: a mule, whose four hoofs stuck stiffly out of a shell hole--pointing at him, motionless.
I took my guns along and placed them in a shell hole about 20 yards in front of where our boys were digging.
I was to start and take the right flank gun up and put it out in a shell hole about 20 yards in front of D.
All of a sudden somebody swears as he trips over a shell hole, but the oath is made in such a reverent way that it is more of a prayer than a curse word.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shell hole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
