Sentence examples for gunfire sustained from inspiring English sources

I heard gunfire, sustained shooting.

It was an unprecedented wave of coordinated suicide bombing, sustained gunfire and explosions, much of it directed against the police.

In Mosul, trouble erupted for a second straight day, both times after the Americans said marines came under sustained gunfire.

Some witnesses reported sustained gunfire after the explosion, indicating that at least one gunman might have escaped.

Witnesses in Verviers said they heard a series of explosions at 5.45pm and then sustained gunfire near the railway station.

Around seven explosions and sustained gunfire were heard by neighbours and officers throughout the morning, during which two terror suspects were killed and around seven arrests made.

The street violence, which involved sustained gunfire between Israeli and Palestinian troops last Monday, provoked opposition forces on both sides to press their leaders to suspend the talks.

After sustained gunfire – Guéant said one officer told him he had never seen "such an intense and violent assault" – there was silence.

"Once a crowd had assembled," the report said, "it was assaulted through sudden sustained gunfire; or locked in buildings into which hand grenades were thrown; systematically killed with manual instruments; or killed in large numbers by other means".

As the fighting intensified during Monday's assault, residents described an intimidating universe of sustained gunfire and loud booms, and a fourth straight day of being unable to venture out.

The risks were all too clear last weekend when a British television reporter, Terry Lloyd, came under sustained gunfire while on assignment in the port city of Basra in southern Iraq.