Sentence examples for gunfire raged from inspiring English sources

Several officers on the scene were pinned down behind cars and elevated track pillars as shotgun blasts and gunfire raged.

"They tried to attack the church," said a Palestinian man inside the compound who was reached by cellphone as the gunfire raged outside.

Inside the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque, the building which lies at the heart of the east Cairo encampment, crying babies clung to their mothers as gunfire raged around them following the start of the operation.

As the gunfire raged, staff and students hid wherever they happened to be.

In 1966, the first anniversary, tens of thousands of people flocked to 103rd Street, where fires once raged and gunfire filled the air.

Rival Christian fighters traded gunfire today as artillery barrages in East Beirut raged until nightfall.

Ethiopians struck that area and others on Thursday and Friday, and more than 43 people died in barrages of gunfire and tank shells as the battle raged.

Even as it grew later, gunfire cracked as another battle around the Egyptian Museum raged.

The battle raged for at least 45 minutes with heavy gunfire from both sides.

Steven Goodman: We have had many nights over the past weeks with gunfire around the house, raging fires in the neighborhood, and wide-scale looting and pillaging.

Dr. Akhmed Mogushkov, the chief doctor at the republic's main hospital, tried to reach the emergency room as the battles raged but could not get past the first street without encountering gunfire.