Meanings of scattering death in English

Also he told me how shrapnel spread, scattering death over large areas.

Again they burst through the opposing ranks, scattering death on either side as they passed.

There was that devil scattering death among them and the poor fellows crumpling up like rabbits.

From his tone it was evident that the soldiers feared everybody in that district, through which they went scattering death, destruction and torture.

Meantime, the enemy had hauled a cannon up into the tower over the Peter Gate, which was soon scattering death among the defenders.

The shell coming from an invisible point, miles away, had burst some distance on his right, scattering death and wounds over a wide radius.

The great guns continued to rage, scattering death over the field for miles, but the massed attacks of infantry, and cavalry charges, became more uncommon.