Sentence examples for gunfire set from inspiring English sources

The gunfire set off panic on the Boardwalk.

The gunfire set off a frenzy, as the panicked crowd ran for safety.

May didn't get past the lobby, but the sound of gunfire set off screams among students, who scrambled for cover among the bookshelves and barricaded themselves in rooms.

The Ottomans returned fire ineffectively until 09 35 when the Italian gunfire set the Avnillah afire.

Langy's men, alerted by the gunfire, set up their own ambush.

In northeastern Baghdad, gunmen raked an American military convoy with gunfire, setting one truck on fire, Agence France-Presse reported.

Heavy German gunfire sank, set ablaze or immobilised all the small craft intended to transport the commandos back to England; the commandos had to fight their way out through the town to try to escape overland.

Witnesses said armed Fulani herdsmen attacked the villages of Da Jak and Attakar in Plateau State in the early hours, spraying residents with automatic gunfire and setting houses on fire.

The operation follows a week of clashes between security forces and suspected drug dealers in several slums in the Rio area, with drug gangs fighting back with gunfire and setting vehicles on fire.

A year later he was dead, killed in a hail of police gunfire while setting off an explosive device.

Although able to score a few hits on Kirishima, South Dakota took 25 medium and one large-caliber hit some of which did not explode that completely knocked out her communications and remaining gunfire control operations, set portions of her upper decks on fire, and forced her to try to steer away from the engagement.