Sentence examples for firefight for from inspiring English sources

The ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, was missing almost immediately after the start of an intense, four-hour firefight for control of the mission, and his body was not located until Wednesday morning at dawn, when he was found dead at a Benghazi hospital, American and Libyan officials said.

The Taliban carried out their attack from a safe house within the sprawling security perimeter that Afghan forces set up a week ago, said a police commander near the scene of the fighting, who had just interrogated a Taliban suspect captured in a firefight for control of the house.

It turned out they were two men who had been caught in the firefight for the Saddam Canal the night before, and a friend of theirs, who had stood up wearing a red bandana to see what was going on, was unsurprisingly killed.

The marines lost a man in an intense firefight for another house that went on most of the morning.

"Made a very challenging firefight for us," Curry said.

Instead, some learned last week that their soldier or marine had been killed a few days earlier in the firefights for control of the capital city.

Then the firefight ends, for the moment at least, leaving only a swirl of dust drifting over the culverts.

What we tend to do is firefight; wait for something to go wrong and then manage it".

A firefight raged for nearly seven hours, with sniper fire pinning down the Green Berets on a 60-foot rock ledge for much of that time.

He said that the firefight lasted for three hours, "literally to the last bullet," and that the rebels withdrew only after military reinforcements arrived.

The militiamen had heavy weapons, including antiaircraft and antitank guns mounted on their trucks, and a fierce firefight raged for three hours.