Sentence examples for command to fire from inspiring English sources

Another "thought" he heard a command to fire.

Other soldiers, thinking they had heard the command to fire, followed suit.

A sheriff gave the command to fire and Wilkerson braced for the barrage.

Amid the welter of conflicting testimony, Adams demonstrated that no one knew for sure who, if anyone, had given a command to fire.

Ordering his escort into line of battle, Blunt turned to give the command to fire, but found his troops "in full gallop over the prairie, completely panic-stricken".

The ammunition has been loaded into the cannons, the carriage turned towards the enemy and the command to fire will soon be issued.

In the single thruster pulse method, one thruster is commanded to fire for a fixed period to produce a pulsed external torque disturbance.

The mission team must decide if the harpoons can now be commanded to fire without unsteadying the robot still further.

Violence was only averted because the battalion commander, now sacked for his moderation, ignored orders from his high command to open fire.

After waiting until the right moment, Ernest Jehan, a Royal Navy gunner in command of Inverlyon, ordered the White Ensign raised and gave the command to open fire.

Later the whipsawed aide would affirm the truth of what he wrote at the time, but nervously added language pleasing to White House lawyers: "She did not command me to fire them".