Use "hailstone" in a sentence

1. But within minutes the Turkish artillery responded with heavy shrapnel and we could hear it pinging and rattling like hailstone on the front trenches were the casualties and dead had began to pile up before a single man had started advancing towards the Turkish lines

2. The shrapnel flayed the ground and pattered down on us like hailstone only this stuff that dropped from the sky was deadly

3. “We must go after this Sir no matter what happens because this will precede another counterattack”, he said this I could hear the shrapnel pattering down like hailstone on a tin roof

4. Smack! A larger variety of hailstone shattered on the deck

5. Or hailstone in the sun