Sentence examples for firefight raged from inspiring English sources

A firefight raged around the green smoke grenade.

A 10-minute firefight raged in the heart of the market district, claiming at least two soldiers, one shot through the eye.

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.

As a firefight raged outside his official residence, Sir Rex held fast in his study, pistol in hand, vowing to shoot any Argentine who came through the door.

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

A web page selling Davies's book, which is to be published under the pseudonym Morgan Jones, says the book reveals "the embassy's secret access that no one but Jones knew about – and that allowed him entry as the savage firefight raged on" and promises readers "Jones's discovery of the murdered ambassador's body and his confirmation that the killing was indeed targeted and sadistically brutal".

After the predawn invasion, firefights raged throughout the day here in Ramallah, and five Palestinians were reported killed.

Workers this afternoon spent hours searching the gardens around the mud-brick compounds and arid, empty fields where fierce firefights raged only a week ago.

Total sorties: 2,000 Bombing missions flown: 1,000 Pre-planned targets: 1,500 BASRA AND THE GULF: NEAR BASRA: SURRENDER -- A firefight rages outside Basra for several hours, ending with the collapse of an Iraqi division.

A nagging lyrical firefight rages across his new album, Camp – a title guaranteed to raise hackles – with Glover/Gambino being too black for the white kids he went to school with ("I hate it there, they make fun of my clothes and wanna touch my hair"), but not black enough for hip-hop, "Rap is for real blacks," a voice declares at one point.

This time it downgraded its initial accounts of a firefight that raged throughout the raid to gunshots fired only at the beginning of the nearly 40-minute operation by bin Laden's courier, who was quickly dispatched by the commandos.