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    shelling


    1. shelling out the bucks if he thought it would help me in school


    2. house would be destroyed in that shelling when another bang


    3. What we were not so happy with was the shelling that was raining down on the beaches but to tell the truth we did not receive many casualties from it


    4. That was the trouble with the rest areas was that you were always shunted into working parties to do fatigues this and the constant shelling meant that you didn’t get that much rest


    5. Mind you sometimes this was an advantage as the Germans seemed to concentrate on the nicer sections of trench leaving these others alone when they were shelling


    6. It was hard to sit in the bunkers because of the fear of being buried alive by a direct hit but then the shelling stopped


    7. 9s’ shelling us and ‘Jack Johnson’s’ and ‘Oil Can’s’ were thrown in for good measure


    8. Some of the lads found some old wire entanglements that had been snapped off in the shelling we dragged these around and placed them behind us facing the other German trenches


    9. With Creelman and Armstrong, I moved down toward Caney, and turned to view the shelling of the citadel from the Ducrot


    10. After nine minutes of this effective shelling, the Spaniards fortunately held fire, and thus the crowded troops behind the ridge were able to move from their perilous position

    11. Preparatory action holds infantry to cover with artillery at the front, until the shelling has produced sufficient effect for a general advance


    12. A few hours shelling would have demolished the blockhouses and cleared the trenches along the ridges


    13. Two of the three guns at San Ursula were doing effective shelling under Colonel Ordonez, wounded during the afternoon


    14. The consuls drew up a letter of protest to Admiral Sampson, against shelling the place without due warning


    15. There was no fire support artillery on mountains or the shelling of suspected positions as used in Vietnam in any of these wars


    16. Our first objective was the city of Lublin, which was one hundred sixty kilometers away, but progress was very slow, as part of the journey was by foot, under severe shelling from the Germans


    17. There was no shelling, no gunfire, no sound of engines revving up and armor clamoring by


    18. Ellen went on shelling peas for a few minutes


    19. She needed transplant surgery and America wasn’t shelling out the dough


    20. night was spent shelling and eating the savory morsels from within

    21. 99 is a much more pleasant price point because it's a bit more fair across the board--the reader isn't shelling out 9


    22. The shelling continued for a minute or two, but they landed far from us, which meant the enemy couldn’t see us


    23. She sat him down in the rocker in the kitchen and put him to shelling black-eyed peas with an ease that said he had done it before


    24. The officer ran away towards the palace, letting Nancy wait impatiently as the GILGAMESH ignored the shelling and started lifting the Imperium ship with a tractor beam


    25. Instead they are shelling out funds to clean up the damage


    26. They think they can get by without shelling out the money for this expense


    27. ‘’Foxtrot Six, we have nothing at this time: our own artillery is under enemy shelling and is in the process of changing positions


    28. When the surviving LSTs landed on the beaches, the blunders continued and many Americans were killed by friendly fire from the British artillery that had started shelling with live ammunition


    29. These judges are used to shelling out 15


    30. The shelling came to a stop

    31. ‘There’s a lot of talk that you are shelling refugee camps, is that why you


    32. That is one reason why you should use caution when shelling out money for these types of products


    33. Constant shelling and bombings created


    34. Now it is time for the military expedition to start moving for shelling the country


    35. 1- What did the people of the country feel when they had heard the news of the military expedition for shelling their country?


    36. underlying unity of all things, then the cost is displaced, and instead of shelling out the price


    37. They learned how to surround German outposts at long range, call in their planes to blast them apart, surround the dug-in German forces with artillery: and level them safely from a distance with more long-distance shelling


    38. The truth was that the damage to the city was astronomical considering the antiquated technology that they had been attacked with, but the enemy fleets had pressed the attack courageously and the continued shelling was beginning to pay off


    39. Our home was near Circuit House, the army headquarters, so we were worried it might have been destroyed in the shelling


    40. They’re scuttling ships at the port, they’re shelling the cathedral, and there’s no water at the hospital

    41. And once again it was pounded home to him how many of his classmates apparently did not even have to think about money, how many had people watching out for them, shelling out thousands of dollars they never expected to see again


    42. A few weeks after Louie arrived at Ofuna, an American carrier force began bombing and shelling Wake Atoll, where the Americans captured during the Japanese invasion were still being held as slaves


    43. There’d been less laughter about that one … and no laughter at all once the second row of sunken barges prevented the ironclad from steaming straight past and shelling the Army of the Seridahn as it retreated along the tow paths and country lanes which followed the river north


    44. Even if they could, the heretics wouldn’t be shelling them this way unless they intended to come calling in person, and men who were crouched in dugouts were men unable to man the parapets of their works


    45. belittling remark about her, so naturally it seems strange to me that you should elect to do the unselfish thing and stay here with her during this shelling


    46. They weren’t shelling out astronomical dollars to have their sons and daughters learn from someone with Alzheimer’s


    47. But the incessant shelling in the background more than made up for that


    48. Two neighbors are both invested in the market, but one is shelling out fistfuls of cash each year, while the other is paying pennies on the dollar


    49. What was she doing? Knitting, shaving herself, peeling potatoes? Shelling peas? Was she sixty, eighty, one hundred, ten million years old?


    50. Instead of shelling out $40,000










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    Synonyms for "shelling"

    barrage barrage fire battery bombardment shelling

    "shelling" definitions

    the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target