shellfire
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shellfire
Example Sentences
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One truck was hit by shellfire, which the UN says came from an Israeli naval craft.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
When shellfire eases, she ventures out with her husband, Volodymyr, 57, a railway worker who acts as the block’s handyman, to an abandoned home to make meals on a brick grill.
From Reuters ● May 20, 2022
KIEV, Ukraine — On a warm afternoon in Ukraine’s breakaway east, as the front line rumbled with only occasional shellfire, Stanislav Aseev, a 27-year-old undercover journalist, was heading home to Donetsk.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2017
“I have seen U.N. aid workers enduring shellfire to deliver food to the people of Sudan,” she said Wednesday, “yet I’ve also seen U.N. peacekeepers fail to protect the people of Bosnia.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
Under shellfire he wouldn’t bring his kitchen up near enough, so that our soup-carriers had to go much farther than those of the other companies.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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