Sentence examples for firefight one from inspiring English sources

Readying themselves for a potential firefight, one banged on the gate repeatedly with his rifle.

During the brief firefight, one of the Iraqi soldiers turned his weapon on unsuspecting Americans, they said.

They came under fire, and in the ensuing firefight one attacker was killed, one wounded and one detained.

"All we knew was, there's a big firefight," one marine in this group told his lawyer, Paul L. Hackett, a major in the Marine Reserves and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Congress from Ohio in a special election last fall.

The firefight, one of the largest in US history, saw more than 50,000 rounds of gunfire exchanged and resulted in the deaths of five members of the group.

"There's no tactical advantage to going up there other than getting in a firefight," one officer told me.

One more example of the disgraceful side of journalism: I was photographing dead Americans following a firefight on the Bong Son plain.

The firefight -- one of the biggest in Baghdad since the American invasion in 2003 -- erupted at about 10 a.m., when, witnesses and the police said, Iraqi soldiers on Haifa Street, a main thoroughfare on the western side of the Tigris River, came under fire.

On Sunday night, gunmen attacked an Ethiopian convoy, setting off an intense hourlong firefight in one of Mogadishu's ramshackle neighborhoods.

"The group we attacked, we had them cornered from two sides," recounted Sgt. Giraldo Botero, whose squad killed nine in a firefight, including one whose body lay lifeless a few feet away.

The ensuing firefight was one of the deadliest for Egyptian security forces in recent years.