Sentence examples for fired close from inspiring English sources

And early in his tenure, he fired close to 100,000 people -- the genesis of his nickname, Neutron Jack, after the weapon with the capacity to wipe out people without destroying buildings.

Last but not least, after exhausting all those warning measures, the IDF fired close to such homes and gave the residents enough time to leave them safely, before the houses were hit.

William J. McNamara, a public affairs officer with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office, said it is all too common for residents to call to report or complain about shots fired close to a house.

There are measurements of Martin's body (five foot eleven, a hundred and fifty-eight pounds), of the traces of marijuana in his blood (likely from days before, and not enough to play a role), and of gunpowder on his hooded sweatshirt (suggesting that the shot was fired close); there's also a diagram of the shot to his heart.

Israel says militants have fired close to 500 rockets from Gaza since it launched its Operation Protective Edge early on Tuesday.

Rounds have been fired close to a hotel where foreign journalists have been staying in the capital.

Many of the victims, as in so many other body-dumps showing up in the environs of Damascus in recent weeks, bore the telltale signs of bullets to the head, fired close-up, execution-style.

Approaching from a quarter astern and slightly below, Johnson fired closing from 200 to 70 yards.

Colborne had deployed his infantry in the standard line, two men deep, and had prepared to fire close range volleys into the French flank.

Using the synaptic gains assumed by Izhikevich, at least 2 pre-synaptic neurons must fire close together for a post synaptic neuron to fire.

In these networks, SCs first need to fire close enough, an ability demonstrated theoretically and experimentally (in vitro) in [8], [54].