Thesaurus results for SHELLING

shelling

verb

present participle of shell

as in peeling

to remove the natural covering of shelling peanuts

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as in bombing

to use bombs or artillery against the enemy shelled the city for days without letup

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Recent Examples of shelling Napoli were camped inside their own penalty area, tortoise-shelling, daring Arsenal to batter their way through. — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Lebanon's state news agency reported new airstrikes and shelling on their hometown over the weekend. — ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026 Mansouri was subjected to Israeli shelling earlier this week, according to Lebanon’s state news agency. — Matthew Lee, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026 Pass the time shelling on its pristine beaches or swimming in the sparkling waters. — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 July 2026 In a new report, NPR's Anas Baba and Aya Batrawy document what daily life looks like for families trapped between expanding military zones, with shelling at night, gunfire by day and nowhere safe to go. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 July 2026 Despite a fragile ceasefire reached in October that paused the heaviest fighting between Israel and the Hamas militant group, Israel continues to carry out near daily strikes and shelling across the coastal enclave. — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026 In eastern Ukraine, Orthodox parishes that are not part of the Russian Orthodox faith have been damaged or destroyed due to shelling from Russian missiles. — Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026 The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, a peacekeeping mission, said Thursday that a Serbian peacekeeper was killed and two others were wounded when shelling hit their base in the country's southeast the previous night. — Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 4 June 2026

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On the walls, the paint is peeling and the floor, unswept in days, leaves little pieces of dirt stuck to our feet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
On Tuesday, a silver cross on a long chain hung from the pine tree’s bark, which was peeling and blackened from the blaze.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026

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Interviewees describe hacking little girls’ phones to see when their fathers came home and then bombing their houses, listening while the people on the line screamed and pleaded for help, while mothers cried over their burning daughters.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
In 1991, during the Gulf War, America and its allies began bombing Baghdad in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

— David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026