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Example sentences for "solid shot"

  • SOLID SHOT At Havana, Cuba, in the early days, there was an abundance of round stones lying around, put there by Mother Nature.

  • It was really a bad specimen of a solid shot.

  • A solid shot struck a gun thought to be perfectly protected, and hurled it, with the men serving it, over the parapet.

  • So she sailed majestically through the plunging hail of solid shot, and past the terrible batteries that were thought to be a match for any thing afloat.

  • Twenty heavy guns on the hillside high above were hurling solid shot down on the little fleet.

  • More than once the Confederates posted their artillery within effective range, and opened a rapid and well-directed fire upon the gunboats, but erred in using explosive shells instead of solid shot.

  • Not a very safe place to take shelter if a solid shot happened to strike it.

  • A solid shot, or a shell, struck and crashed through the breastwork, splinters wounding Enslee in the head.

  • All of the enemy’s artillery opened fire shortly after with solid shot, shell and canister.

  • Solid shot, shells, canister, and shrapnel are thrown towards the hollow, but without avail.

  • Suddenly he found himself sitting on the floor, the stool having been knocked away by a solid shot, without injury to himself.

  • The unsuspecting soldiers were riddled with solid shot, canister, and rifle-balls.

  • Spherical case is effective at much greater distances, its range being nearly equal to that of solid shot.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural implements; borne along; early manhood; find them; find you; green morocco; inner chamber; mere collection; musical expression; rusty black; smoke house; solid body; solid column; solid crust; solid food; solid ground; solid masonry; solid mass; solid shot; solid silver; solid state; solid stone; solid substance; spend the; thou shalt; waste matter