How To Use mortar fire In A Sentence
- Skirting the village, the group crossed a little canal and came under intense mortar fire.
- One soldier in the file was hit by mortar fire a few yards from my tank.
- The spread of radio sets made tactical separation easier and improved the control of artillery and mortar fire.
- But the shattering detonations on Friday sounded like heavy mortar fire, and they shook our house to its foundations.
- Machine gun and mortar fire rang out in heavily-populated Gaza City as Hamas security forces stepped up the pressure on their Palestinian opponents.
- While Hamas militants have largely refrained from participating in the rocket and mortar fire, a radical Muslim group, calling itself the Jund Anssar Al-Sunna (Soldiers of Sunna Supporters), said it was behind some of them and called them revenge for Israeli "aggressions" against the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
- A cameraman was killed when his vehicle came under mortar fire .
- The time of flight of a bomb is longer than that of a shell and mortar fire is therefore subject to greater meteorological variation, making it less accurate than shelling by guns or howitzers and less likely to hit a moving target.
- Israeli leaders said the operation, known as Cast Lead, was meant to quell militant rocket and mortar fire on southern Israel.
- Sure enough, the railway mortar fired several times, and the train began to move forward.
