Sentence examples for fire knocking from inspiring English sources

The Turks caught Alcock on a long-range bombing raid over Suvla Bay, piercing his plane with machine-gun fire, knocking off his port propeller.

Boeing shares closed down 4.7 per cent at $101.87 on Friday after the Heathrow fire, knocking $3.8 billion off the company's market capitalisation.

That was Anthony Suozzo, a general manager of electric operations, asking for four kilovolts; he was dealing with a substation in Westchester County that had just caught fire, knocking out power to more than 1,700 customers.

But the fire knocked one of the boat's two engines out of commission.

The fire knocked out the power, destroying the electricity junction box, but that was it.

Much the same thing happened in August 2010, when a fire knocked out Jamaica signals and stopped trains for a week.

The fire knocked out power to 12 blocks of the surrounding area, a mix of residential and commercial buildings.

(A 1918 fire knocked it out of action for two seasons, so the Calumet Colosseum in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, built in 1913, also lays claim to the distinction).

Two months ago, a fire knocked out a 245,000-barrel-a-day refinery in the Bay Area that has still not resumed full production.

At least 100 German soldiers came down a cobblestone road, and their fire knocked out one of the Americans' two machine-gun positions.

A manhole fire knocked out power last night to 210 Consolidated Edison customers on East 29th Street in Manhattan, Joe Petta, a spokesman for the utility, said.