Sentence examples for firing a flare from inspiring English sources

Foster was also found guilty of the minor charge of unsafe storage of weapons, and another defendant was found guilty of firing a flare gun.

He served nine months in prison for assault (his defence was that he thought he was being followed), was convicted for firing a flare gun over the heads of teenagers climbing on his roof, and was charged with a racist assault.

An SOS barrage could be brought down by firing a flare signal of a pre arranged colour, as a German barrage tended to cut the telephone lines.

Zaq agreed that the final touches could wait until morning, so we took a few minutes firing a flare gun at the moon before unrolling our sleeping bags next to the monolith we'd created and watched the flames from the fire reflect across the desert.

The captain fired a flare.

The rescuers said one of the crew fired a flare she found in the water.

He fired a flare gun, and the pirates, thinking they were being fired upon, responded by shooting him.

Elsewhere, fishermen armed with gaffs and sticks sank another Zodiac and, according to Greenpeace's Knowles, fired a flare at the observation helicopter.

An initial Pentagon statement said one of the American escort planes had fired a flare to warn the Iranian jet away but later retracted that report.

But someone did manage to fire a flare, setting in motion a remarkable rescue effort on Sunday by fishermen and pleasure boats that prevented an even greater tragedy.

In the song, "Universal Applicant," over a slithering, one-chord piece of music, the narrator fires a flare gun, an action that Mr. Callahan first describes and then imitates, in two small and precise aspirant sounds.