Sentence examples for hurl fire from inspiring English sources

Generally referred to as "artillery", these engines could hurl, fire or shoot missiles and most could be used or adapted for throwing thermal weapons, by attacking and defending forces.

The workers also hurled fire bombs from rooftops.

Protesters hurled fire bombs and rocks at riot police as they were encircled.

Protesters hurled fire bombs at riot police who responded with tear gas, officers said.

Four days of demonstrations in 2009 saw 1,500 people arrested after protesters set fire to barricades and hurled fire bombs at riot police, who responded with teargas.

Protesters there threw stones at passing cars, burned tyres and hurled fire bombs at police, who responded with teargas and stun grenades.

CAIRO — During an anti-government demonstration on Friday, protesters hurled fire bombs over the wall of Egypt's presidential palace, setting fire to a gatehouse in a symbolically potent show of disregard for the country's leader.

Photo: Ivorian youths, demanding that international peacekeepers and French troops leave the Ivory Coast, hurled fire bombs and tried to smash the wall of the United Nations compound in Abidjan in the fourth day of violent protests.

The protester who was shot, Carlo Giuliani, was photographed at the moment of death, in pictures that showed other rioters attacking a police jeep and Mr. Giuliani, hurling a fire extinguisher at the officer, who says he fired back in self-defense.

Italian television repeatedly showed grisly still shots of Mr. Giuliani, his face masked by a balaclava, hurling a fire extinguisher at a police van, then a close-up of a hand inside the van firing a pistol in return.

A student suspected of hurling a fire extinguisher from a 30-storey building during this week's protests over tuition fees has been arrested.