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Discover LudwigThe phrase "fired like" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when describing the way something is being fired or launched, such as a missile or a projectile. It can also be used to describe the way someone is being dismissed from their job. Example: The missile was fired like a bullet from the launcher, speeding towards its target. Example: The employee was fired like a bullet from his position, due to his poor performance.
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In unison, we wheeled and fired, like grouse hunters pointing and shooting at the sound of flushing birds.
There was an initial shudder of shyness through the young audience, and then the questions fired like pinballs.
Sonic gets fired like a shot into the impossible depths of violet liquids and dies, choking open-mouthed.
Every day, the kids, fired like missiles from the yellow school buses, waved at Carl, and he saluted them all, righty-o.
In a voice he fired like a.45, he began by asking us, "How many of you people think you're good drivers?" We had all been singled out in four-wheelers.
But the radical mutants' worst fears appear to be realised when it becomes known that the "cure" is being used as a weapon: phials of the contentious liquid are being fired like darts at the most dangerous mutants.
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He will fire like a rocket against the Dragons.
And now his sons were firing like maniacs, and yet still I could see no blood.
"I used to fire like flies," he cackled.
He spoke at an impossibly fast clip, words firing like excited synapses.
But those votes for Russia and Qatar, last December, sparked the latest scandal that has spread, fire-like, since.
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