Sentence examples for firecrackers off from inspiring English sources

Last mid-July, kids were still setting firecrackers off in the street on an evening when I met a friend at the bar.

His aunt, Crystal Lacroix, remembers what sounded like firecrackers going off in the distance.

We heard firecrackers going off in sheets and waves everywhere in New York.

"We were just watching the movie and up to the right it sounded liked some firecrackers went off," he said.

Vertebrae in his neck and upper back popped in sequence, like a line of firecrackers going off".

A researcher familiar with the experiment said compared the accident to corn popping or a string of firecrackers going off.

Today, many people loosely subscribe to the ancient belief that firecrackers scare off nefarious spirits and attract the gods of good luck and fortune.

Outside, a bonfire of bamboo shoots was set aflame in the humid night air, sounding like hundreds of firecrackers going off at once.

For extra irony, if the rumours are true, firecrackers set off by illegal new year's revellers were the cause of the blaze.

What resulted was less a New Wave than a series of avant-gardist firecrackers going off: big bang, little bang, silence, huge bang and so on.

"Over to our left, about 100 yards [90 metres] or so away, we saw what we thought was firecrackers going off," he told Sky News.