smoke shell in a sentence
Examples
- The Royal Exchange caught fire in the late afternoon, and was a smoking shell within a few hours.
- The four-story building, reduced to a smoking shell, had housed asylum-seekers from Angola, Zaire, Lebanon, Syria and Poland.
- The turn-of-the-century building was reduced to a smoking shell, its whitewashed walls blackened around holes where windows were.
- Ambulances ferried victims to other hospitals from the two units, which were reduced to empty, smoking shells, witnesses said.
- This too fired HE, though its primary role was delivering smoke shells, covering the other tanks in the unit.
- The French responded to the attacks with smoke shells from a 120-mm mortar, the biggest weapon in their arsenal.
- The building, which was reduced to a smoking shell, had housed asylum-seekers from Angola, Zaire, Lebanon, Syria and Poland.
- It was used for tactical purposes by smoke shells would commence within 30 minutes to cover soldiers'advance towards the next objective.
- Witnesses said the hospital's neurological building and an intensive care unit were hit and reduced to empty, smoking shells, witnesses said.
- The 60mm mortar is most effectively used in firing smoke shells, and is generally useless against armoured vehicles or dug-in troops.