A corporal in the engineers was going the night of June 7th to a creneau of mitrailleuses, when he was bowled over by a bursting shell.
Then, entering an extensive body of woods, we passed by the bodies of four infantrymen lying side by side, having just been killed by a bursting shell.
While sitting on his saddle-horse in one battle he was knocked full length to the ground by a bursting shell.
There is a distinct difference between the sound of a gun and that of a bursting shell.
A night attack is a wonderful thing to see: the steady solemn thunder of the guns, the sky glaring with star-shells and trails, the trenches flaming and roaring with bursting shell.
His leg was shattered by a bursting shell, while scores of his officers and thousands of his men lay on the field to dream of battlefields no more.
Johnston was seriously wounded by a bursting shell, and was carried from the field.
His horse was killed by a bursting shell, but he mounted another and continued.
Nicholls directed the barbette guns with a cool courage worthy of the service in which he had been trained, until he was killed by a bursting shell.
Just as he had drowned the fire he was wounded in two places and stunned by a bursting shell.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bursting shell" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
