1.   As I approached Lovat and the two Officers, a shell burst a short distance away.

2.   As the enemy approach still nearer, shells burst upon their compact masses.

3.   The shells were bursting....

4.   In a trench to his rear that he had ordered to be abandoned the previous night, eight shells burst almost simultaneously.

5.   Serbian shells once burst through the concert room.

6.   Soon a shell bursts, two drivers reel,

7.   Another shell burst near his office in Jaffna, killing the wife of a local Red Cross employee.

8.   Local Comelec official Juan Agudo told reporters one shell burst through the roof of the schoolhouse while the rest exploded in the courtyard.