Shellfire definition

shĕlfīr
The shooting or exploding of artillery shells.
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The firing of large shells.
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We were pinned down by shellfire. If the artillery hadn't run out of shells to shoot at us we would have been wiped out.

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Shellfire Sentence Examples

  • Private Morrow worked on entirely on his own initiative, all the time being under extremely heavy shellfire from the German guns.

  • The impact of german shellfire in the action here tends to be understated, in my view.

  • However, there were still many whose graves were destroyed by shellfire over the course of the war.

  • In many cases, it may not have been possible to identify them if they had been killed by shellfire.

  • Off the coast of that country, he was wounded by shellfire.

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