Sentence examples similar to fired target from inspiring English sources

Simonds had ordered several means for the columns to maintain their direction: some vehicles were fitted with radio direction finders, the artillery fired target-marking shells, Bofors 40 mm guns fired bursts of tracer in the direction of advance.

The plan calls for using launching sites on Kodiak to fire target missiles toward the continental United States and interceptors to shoot down test missiles coming toward Alaska from either California or Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific.

He then missed another good chance when he fired off target following O'Grady's lay-off.

Danny Philliskirk and James Dayton were denied by Gills keeper Stephen Bywater, while Dayton also fired off target.

Schurrle fired off target, Nathan Ake was denied from 25 yards by Lonergan, who then saved a header from Oscar.

Crawford sent a shot a few feet wide of the goal before Motherwell winger Lionel Ainsworth also fired off target.

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All day Friday, American aircraft fired at targets in southern Baghdad.

Later, Israeli warplanes struck a Palestinian police compound in Gaza City and rockets were fired at targets in the northern Gaza Strip.

So once ashore, they repeatedly ran and dropped to set dummy explosives while Royal Air Force machine-gunners overhead fired at targets.

Sensing defeat, Laudrup made a host of substitutions, but Michu again fired off-target following Nathan Dyer's lay-off.