Then Montdidier became too hot under the increasing shellfire and the workers were forced to split, some going to Amiens and others to Beauvais, where they continued their work.
All the boats had been shattered by shellfire at their davits, but the survivors launched a Carley raft and paddled clear of the ship.
Therefore, the task of directing the shellfire had to be confided to the airplanes, and in the lagoons to the seaplanes.
They had brought a number of long-range guns, probably naval, and their shellfire was scattered as far back as twenty-eight miles behind the lines.
Under Constant Shellfire On the morning of April 26 French companies made six attacks, and in the afternoon two more, and though their losses were heavy, that evening both the village and hospice of Locre stayed in their hands.
In many cases it lasted from eight to nine hours a day, with long walks to and fro, sometimes of ten kilometers in each direction, and for long periods was carried on within range of the shellfire of the allied armies.
One instance of the allied shellfire may be given.
Dennison let the engine idle--he felt the pressure of shellfire on his skull, outside and inside his skull.
The sound brought with it the sensation of violent pitching, the distress of gasoline and oil fumes, the threat of shellfire at close range.
Shellfire was constant now, rocking the tank: the steel walls became paper partitions, likely to bend inward, collapse at any moment.
Shellfire rumbled in the distance, a sound that had in it all the vacuity of the African desert.
Sometimes shellfiredrove them in, penis and scrotum.
Shellfire sprayed white, like flung salt, over the line of vision.
After two days of taking Jap shellfire we’re all spoiling for a chance to dish it out.
No shellfire greeted them as they made their run over the Jap airfield.
Sometimes the barge would be holed by shellfire and the valuable load lost, or again a leak might turn the precious water brackish.
The Cove was exposed to the shellfire of the batteries below Gaba Tepe, including the redoubtable Beachy Bill.
The attack was opened by such a fusillade of shellfire from the warships of the allied fleet as has seldom been seen or heard.
The enemies' losses from that shellfire were enormous, but the Turks are admirable defensive fighters, and they clung to their trenches, making the most of the shelters that had been constructed in anticipation of such an attack.
The losses from the heavy shellfire were considerable.
These men had already seen what shellfire could do to knock the beauty out of old houses and quiet streets.
We saw a few farmhouses, all desolated by shellfireand all deserted, and a succession of empty fields and patches of woodland.
Shellfire had battered it into a gruel of shattered red masonry; but German officers were camped within its more habitable parts, and light guns were mounted in the moat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shellfire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fire; firepower; fireworks; firing; flak; gunfire; musketry; shellfire; shooting
