Sentence examples for firefight in a from inspiring English sources
Next thing you know, she was managing her first firefight in a real mission.
Five people were wounded in a firefight in a parking lot in Colorado Springs, Colo., early Sunday.
But three days after the violence in Yerevan, Armenian and Azerbaijani forces were involved in their worst firefight in a decade.
And yet what is new here is not the corruption, but only the violence: first the assassination of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown in his driveway on Dec. 15 and then a seemingly related firefight in a tranquil subdivision last Sunday.
Less than a month later, on May 1, the president made a dramatic late-night Sunday television address to inform the world that U.S. special forces had killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a firefight in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, not far from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
Another pitched firefight in a ravine in eastern Afghanistan had begun, shaped by factors that have made the war against the Taliban seem unending: grueling terrain that favors ambushes and prevents American soldiers from massing; villages in thorough collaboration with insurgents; and experienced adversaries each fighting in concert with its abilities and advantages.
An Army paratrooper from Elizabeth, N.J., was killed in a firefight in an eastern border area near Pakistan.
The attack was carefully planned, ambitious, and was foreshadowed: a desperate firefight in an affluent Lima neighborhood last year when police captured guerrilla leaders who were planning an invasion of the Peruvian Congress.
After a "small firefight" in which a bullet grazed a Lorenzana family member, agents found "large numbers of weapons and amounts of cash" but not the targets, who may have been tipped off, according to the cable.
He was captured in Afghanistan, where his father, an Al Qaeda associate, led him, after a firefight in which an American soldier, Christopher Speer, died and Khadr nearly did.
In the fall, a special operations soldier was killed in a firefight in Iraq during a joint U.S.-Kurdish commando raid on an Islamic State prison.
