Sentence examples for firefight about from inspiring English sources

A soldier, Abdi Rashid, had been wounded in another firefight about a month before, and according to Mr. Abdirizak, "he shouldn't even have been out there that day.

A statement from the First Marine Expeditionary Force said the firefight began about 3 p.m. Thursday with an ambush on a Marine convoy.

At the Battle of Apple River Fort, a firefight of about an hour ensued, with Black Hawk's forces eventually withdrawing.

Military officials say Hasib was killed during an intense three-hour firefight involving about 50 U.S. Army Rangers and 40 Afghan commandos.

In the same way lawyers talk billable hours, teachers about autistic kids, between bragging about firefights and talking cautiously about IED's, Canadian soldiers complain about being badly equipped in theatres of war, something that has been no different under Harper.

After a firefight that lasted about five minutes, they slipped away in the fading light.

The firefight took place about 100 miles southwest of the eastern city of Khost along the border with Pakistan.

Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said that after the explosion went off, rebels engaged the convoy in a firefight that lasted about half an hour.

In southern Iraq, a Danish soldier and two Iraqis were killed in a firefight Saturday night about 30 miles north of Basra, Danish military officials said.

The political firefight that is about to engulf the US over the summer is over the 45 million people who have no health insurance that Obama wants to bring into the system.

The men who were present fell back to the blockhouse and a firefight ensued for about one hour, after which the attackers withdrew.