What is "artillery shell"

Usage examples of "artillery shell".

It floated above the tracks with no visible support, and the locomotive was shaped more like a rifle bullet or an artillery shell than anything he recognized.

Behind a fragment of wall the Meijians had erected the Mjollnir, a squat two-stage rocket shaped like a huge artillery shell twice the height of a man.

He passed a man whose body lay splayed open from the strike of an artillery shell.

An artillery shell burst off to one side of the road: the helicopters hadn't routed the Deutsche, then.

Depending on the distance to the target and the type of weapon, it takes a certain amount of time for an artillery shell to reach its objective.

An artillery shell burst off to one side of the road: the helicopters hadn’.

They'd track anything that came over the horizon, whether aircraft or artillery shell, and blast it if required.

The booby-trapped artillery shell had not given them any time to choose, or to take cover, or to do anything but die instantly.

Tween us and the frogs and the limeys and the Bodies, we musta done fired every artillery shell in the world 'bout ten times over.

Much less chance to survive a near miss, and there is more explosive in a mortar's round than an artillery shell, which needs a thick steel wall to survive firing stresses.

It has a red neck, and a cobalt-blue head with a giant helmetlike bone sticking out of the top of its skull, like the nose of an artillery shell.