The two opened careful fire again while the broken remnants of the attacking line ran and hobbled and crawled back or into the cover of shell holes.
The Dijon factory, however, turned out a number of small observation posts for use at the edges of shell holes.
The usual method of use was to place a number of silhouettes, possibly several dozen of them, in shell holes out in front of the trenches.
It was possible when one burst near to see the entire landscape spread out like a map--ditches full of water, sodden fields, shell holes in the roads which had become lakes, the long lines of poplars outlining the road ahead.
The road was full of shell holes, so that to step was to stumble.
The walls were full of shell holes, stuffed with sacks of straw or boarded over.
He ran along the line of shell holes in which the men were sheltering and cried out, 'Come on, the Dubs.
The country across which this dash was made was pitted with innumerable shell holes, most of them of great width and depth and all full of water and mud.
Everything had to be done at night, and runners to the companies found this their busiest time, wading thigh-deep through stretches of water, and picking their way amongst innumerable shell holes in search of Company Headquarters.
Meanwhile, Edge and his men were creeping steadily forward, and were encountering difficulties amongst huge shell holes, loose tags of wire and a very irregular hedge which they were trying to follow as a guide.
The 127th brigade resided under canvas about the battered village of Achiet le Petit on patches of ground not too incommoded by shell holes.
The echeloning of the specialists in front is also the most favorable formation to progress by rushes in a terrain cut up by shell holes.
This assembly position south of the Quarry was that occupied by the 9th Londons on the previous night, but on arrival it was found to be only a line of shell holes.
Early in the day the 1/4th Londons had moved forward to positions in shell holes at Airy Corner, near Feuchy Chapel, and at 8.
The attack of the 21st Division on the left, moreover, failed throughout, and although a few isolated parties succeeded in reaching a line of shell holes in front of Tunnel Trench they were eventually forced to withdraw.
C Company, following slightly to its right, was able to avoid total extinction by taking cover in shell holes in dead ground close by, but 2/Lieut.
The rest of the building was a series of shell holes surrounding a cellar from which the floor had been shot away.
The map showed it to be a good road, and as far west as this there was small danger from shell holes.
The first twenty or so will be bad on account of shell holes, I heard they threw as far as Forges.
These children lived in tumble-down houses which were all but ruins, and played in shell holes as if these cruel, ragged gaps in the earth had been made by the kind Boche for their especial entertainment.
I lay out in shell holes, helping to hold a line where there were no trenches.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shell holes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
