The phrase "a fierce shootout" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an intense and violent exchange of gunfire, often in a dramatic or action-oriented context.
Example: "The police engaged in a fierce shootout with the armed suspects in the downtown area."
Alternatives: "a brutal gunfight" or "an intense firefight".
Kenya's National Police Service said armed militants shot at campus guards to gain entry, triggering a "fierce shootout".
By providing cover, the armored vehicle — along with other grant-funded gear and the specialized training they received — helped save the lives of the deputies who ended up engaged in a fierce shootout with Dorner.
Hussein's 2 Sons Are Killed In a Fight With U.S. Troops The two eldest sons of Saddam Hussein died in a fierce shootout with American forces in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after an Iraqi informant identified the palatial residence in which the two men were hiding.
The seizure of the suspected bodyguards provided another lift to American military commanders in Iraq, who said the killing of Uday and Qusay Hussein in a fierce shootout on Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul had coincided with a surge in tips from Iraqis offering information about suspected supporters of Mr. Hussein.
Twenty-one people died Thursday morning in a single fierce shootout between rival drug traffickers outside Nogales, which borders Arizona.
When Richard Thompson, the English songwriter and guitarist who opened the concert, joined them for Mr. Crowell's "I Ain't Living Long Like This," the cautionary country-rock song became a fierce guitar shootout.
But this disputed island chain, known to Japan as the Senkaku islands and to China as the Diaoyus, is casting its strange spell across the whole of the East China Sea.A fierce shootout with water-cannon broke out between Japan's coast guard and Taiwan's on the morning of September 25th.
In the weeks that followed, fierce shootouts broke out along long stretches of the border, and the local reporters went silent.
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He remains a fierce critic.
