Sentence examples for bursts of firecrackers from inspiring English sources

Allegro sequences resembled bursts of firecrackers.

It was a reminder to a triumphant government of an unhappy truth: the Tigers may be dead, but the bitter ethnic divisions that fuelled the 26-year war live on.Some hours later only a few bursts of firecrackers were heard in Colombo when state television aired footage of the dead Tiger supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran.

Yet the last remaining cadres continued fighting on Monday, deploying suicide bombers and lighting fires to slow down troops.In Sri Lanka's Sinhalese-dominated south, the defeat of the LTTE a brutal organisation that had controlled roughly a quarter of the country at its peak was greeted by bursts of firecrackers.

Numerous victory songs played on the radio, flags raised in every street corner, and brilliant speeches made about democracy, accompanied by the taste of warm kiribath, and the celebratory burst of firecrackers were an indication of this festivity.

With concerns about rising air pollution hanging over India's capital like the thick blanket of smog that appeared a few weeks ago and activists against noise pollution jostling to be heard over the burst of holiday firecrackers, the relatively benign problem of light pollution may not seem too important.

The blast is actually a series of bursts, like a string of firecrackers going off one after another.

Two-kilometre string of firecrackers?

It was automatic, like a string of firecrackers.

And the airport's neighbours appreciate the lack of firecrackers.

"I couldn't go pop with a mouthful of firecrackers".

He said he and his friends heard what they thought was the sound of firecrackers.