Sentence examples for gun firing from inspiring English sources

In naval battles of the 1890s the decisive weapon was the medium-calibre, typically 6 inches, quick-firing gun firing at relatively short range; at the Battle of the Yalu River in 1894, the victorious Japanese did not commence firing until the range had closed to 3900 m and most of the fighting occurred at 2000 m.

People around here are not hardened to the sounds of a gun firing.

He then took over Sergeant Berwald's.50-caliber machine gun, firing repeatedly and reloading three times before he died.

Akbar Noorani, 54, was opening the front gates to National Distributors Inc. when the suspect approached him and pointed a gun, firing as Noorani ran away.

The Code had been interpreted to mean that a director could not show a gun firing and a person being hit in the same shot.

Capra used rapid montage, zooming in on alarming newspaper headlines, and reënacted such events as a political assassination, the gun firing in closeup.

The gun fired.

Machine gun fire.

"There was heavy machine gun fire.

Sometimes there's machine gun fire too.

The Lewis gun fired away.