Sentence examples for compound shootout from inspiring English sources
Susan Sachs (NYT) SAUDI ARABIA: HOUSING COMPOUND SHOOTOUT -- Saudi guards and a university student exchanged gunfire at a compound housing American and other military personnel and their families, leaving a Saudi guard dead and three other people wounded.
"I still find old ammo casings all over here," said Ron Goins, who moved to the former compound after the shootout (although he said he was not a member of the sect) and sometimes greets visitors coming up the gravel road.
Anyway, pro-Soviet Bulgarians attack the compound – huh? – triggering a shootout like something from a Western, with gypsy caravans going up in flames like chuck-wagons.
In Freetown, the capital, the rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, who is widely regarded in the West as a war criminal, slipped out of sight during a mass demonstration that turned into a deadly shootout near his compound.
Thomas Müller is yet to score at a European Championship, a failure he compounded by missing his penalty in the shootout against Italy, so France have more confidence in the final third.
Local officials said that the shootout began when the Pakistani soldiers stormed the compound, and that afterward, some Pakistanis complained they had been blinded by a gas used by the Qaeda fighters.
Last Friday, Salva Kiir and Riek Machar, who led opposing sides in South Sudan's most recent civil war, and who now serve as the country's President and First Vice-President, respectively, met at the President's compound to discuss the previous day's skirmish — but, apparently, while they were talking their bodyguards got into a shootout.
— "There's the sign," Kent Terry Jr. exclaimed as the chartered bus pulled into the Border Patrol station, a compound on an expanse of sand and brush bearing the name of his younger brother, who was killed in a shootout linked to a botched gun-smuggling operation known as Fast and Furious.
