The word “firecrackers” is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to a type of explosive, typically made of cardboard and built in cylinders filled with gunpowder and a fuse. Example sentence: The Fourth of July celebration was filled with loud fireworks and firecrackers.
Unusually, the ingredients used in their bright, vivid cooking are organic; with its sibling in Sunset, they're a pair of firecrackers.
Thousands of people line the streets of the South American city to watch as a wall of firecrackers, known as a "pagara", is strung together before being ignited to blast away evil spirits.
Two-kilometre string of firecrackers?
After the Supreme Court ordered the federal government to recognise these marriages in 2013, a series of lower-court decisions brought gay marriage to state after state like a string of firecrackers.
Firecrackers were sold out; national flags, with their dominant lion insignia representing the Sinhalese ethnic majority, had doubled in price.Prabhakaran was shown with a single shot to the forehead, a cloth covering the top of his skull, which appeared to have been blown off.
Fifty "anti-depredation squads", each of a dozen local villagers willing to spend their nights on elephant watch, have been equipped with firecrackers and searchlights and trained in steering hungry herds from fields, homes and stills.
Imitating the radical tin miners of the 1960s and 1970s, demonstrators marched in three neat files through the streets of the capital, La Paz, blocking traffic and hurling firecrackers as they went.
In Mr Peer's home town, "people hugged, jumped around and shouted over the din of celebratory firecrackers".That was before the start of a long and bloody insurgency against Indian rule.
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.
Foreign observers praised voters who defied a "compromised electoral environment".Still, celebrations were subdued: a few firecrackers and rueful smiles.
But after dusk Tehranis emerged in thousands to build fires in alleys and let off firecrackers.
