Definition of "shellings" []

• Plural form of shelling. (noun)

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• "He spent a year at primitive bases in Australia, and two years dodging shellings from the Japanese in Port Moresby, Dobodura, and Buna, New Guinea."
• "History unfolds at ground level all around Boyle, who is subject to the same fierce shellings, sudden deployments, brief friendships and no-warning losses as the rest of the troops, on terrain still bearing scars of wars from centuries past."
• "With the multiple shellings, President Bashar al-Assad's government appears to have further embraced the violent strategy that other regimes, including Iran and Libya, have employed to clamp down on pro-democracy movements."