Shelling is an English word with synonyms like barrage or battery. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shelling in a sentence
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Shelling meaning
present participle and gerund of shell
Synonyms of Shelling
Using Shelling
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of shell
- Useful related words include: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment.
- In the example corpus, shelling often appears in combinations such as: shelling out, shelling of, russian shelling.
Context around Shelling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shelling
- In this selection, "shelling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, russian, government, rebel, near, targeting and mykolaiv stand out and add context to how "shelling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a paper shelling out the and bean before shelling or on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shelling" sits close to words such as asserts, bicycles and bonded, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shelling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And now, no matter where we are, we wait for the “incoming,” for the shelling. (15 words)
All of these are important factors when you’re shelling out big money for a new TV. (17 words)
As a result of enemy shelling, 8 civilians, including a minor child, were killed on his tip. (17 words)
Turkish shelling and airstrikes in Afrin have killed 28 civilians, while two civilians were killed as a result of YPG shelling near Azaz, a town held by Turkish-backed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, the monitoring group said. (39 words)
After her aunt's house was damaged by shelling, Ms Alashi - whose mother died during the coronavirus pandemic - walked eight miles (13 km) to Khan Younis, accompanied by her 70-year-old father in a donkey cart. (37 words)
An AFP correspondent reported continuous shelling of Rafah and Khan Yunis overnight, and the health ministry said "multiple" people had died in a strike on a house in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Government shelling and air strikes have killed 659 people in eastern Ghouta since Feb. 18, while rebel shelling of Damascus has killed 27, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Turkish shelling and airstrikes in Afrin have killed 28 civilians, while two civilians were killed as a result of YPG shelling near Azaz, a town held by Turkish-backed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, the monitoring group said.
Another process that helps develop the flavor is roasting, which can be done on the whole bean before shelling or on the nib after shelling.
A 13-year-old boy was wounded in overnight shelling of Ukraine’s partially occupied southern Kherson province, said Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, spokesman for the Ukrainian administration of the province.
According to multiple eyewitnesses, the shelling targeting major evacuation routes from the city of Kherson, which Ukraine recaptured from Russia’s invading forces in last fall’s counteroffensive.
According to the ABC News, in Gaza, the bodies of dead children killed in shelling were covered in blankets and carried by their fathers in funeral processions.
After her aunt's house was damaged by shelling, Ms Alashi - whose mother died during the coronavirus pandemic - walked eight miles (13 km) to Khan Younis, accompanied by her 70-year-old father in a donkey cart.
Aliyev insisted that the Azerbaijani army struck only military facilities during the fighting, but separatist officials in Nagorno-Karabakh said Stepanakert and other areas came under “intense shelling".
All of these are important factors when you’re shelling out big money for a new TV.
All this time, the commandos provided the command with data on the location of Russian artillery positions that were shelling Mykolaiv.
A march in downtown Detroit, one of several cities to have passed a resolution urging Israel to stop shelling Gaza.
An AFP correspondent reported continuous shelling of Rafah and Khan Yunis overnight, and the health ministry said "multiple" people had died in a strike on a house in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
And now, no matter where we are, we wait for the “incoming,” for the shelling.
An estimated £36million was spent on pest control visits to homes, the insurer found, with each council shelling out, on average, £101,044.
A paper, “Shelling Out: The Origins of Money” written by Nick Szabo, provides a comprehensive history of the evolution of money, where ancestors used rare collectibles as a form of money.
A Russia-installed local official said Ukraine had disconnected a power line and Ukrainian state nuclear energy company Energoatom said the outage was caused by Russian shelling.
As a result of enemy shelling, 8 civilians, including a minor child, were killed on his tip.
As China grapples with a slowing domestic economy, it may become more difficult for Chinese entities to keep shelling out funding for big-ticket overseas projects.
At least 60 people, including 12 children, were also wounded in the shelling, with more people were still trapped under the rubble, the regional governor said.
At least three people were wounded in Russian shelling of Kherson city - about 60 km (37 miles) downstream from the dam - during evacuations, Ukrainian police said.
Common combinations with shelling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shelling out 30×
- shelling of 27×
- russian shelling 25×
- shelling and 17×
- and shelling 16×
- shelling in 15×
- artillery shelling 15×
- the shelling 12×
- in shelling 7×
- by shelling 7×