Sentence examples for gunfire for from inspiring English sources

There were tough battles and gunfire for more than a month.

The commandos and the insurgents traded gunfire for several hours, Colonel Shanks said.

"If you move, you are dead!" The authorities and Mr. Cisneros said Mr. Caffall engaged the police with gunfire for about 30 minutes.

Ending a three-year moratorium on the death penalty, Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners in Kabul by gunfire for crimes including murder, kidnapping and armed robbery.

Local reports suggested that the military surrounded a house in the city and there had been sounds of gunfire for much of the afternoon.

A Reuters correspondent at the scene later spoke to three people who had heard gunfire for a few minutes after 3 a.m.

Her aircraft were mainly involved in spotting for ships providing naval gunfire support for troops ashore, although they also conducted reconnaissance missions of the area.

On 1 April, after six days of aerial and naval bombardment, the ground troops went ashore, and for almost two months, Texas remained in Okinawan waters providing gunfire support for the troops and fending off the enemy aerial assault.

A few months later she departed for Pacific Exercise (PacEx) '89, where she and New Jersey performed a simultaneous gunfire demonstration for the aircraft carriers and.

The police were investigating whether Mr. Saunders was hit by gunfire intended for someone else.

The victim tried to evade the gunfire, running for a short distance before falling to the ground.