Sentence examples for lighted firecrackers from inspiring English sources

Traders on the Bombay Stock Exchange, Asia's oldest, danced on the trading floor and lighted firecrackers in celebration.

From flat rooftops lining the route, children showered the marchers with candy; mischievous boys in the street tossed lighted firecrackers back at the kids up above.

Mr. Wang was arrested on Feb. 9 after he lighted firecrackers on the steps of City Hall to protest the Giuliani administration's refusal to grant a special permit to allow a Chinatown merchant group to legally set off firecrackers.

They kicked their fury up a level, lighting firecrackers and kicking trash cans.

"People are cheering and lighting firecrackers to celebrate the good news".

He was kicked out of grade school in San Mateo, Calif., he says, for lighting firecrackers in class.

As he got older, he and his friends liked to light firecrackers, stick them in water-buffalo dung, and then sprint away.

Driving along the Galle road, a small band of Sinhalese Rajapaksa supporters lit firecrackers, one of the few celebrations of his victory.

The El Salvador supporters, who had been the more boisterous fans of the 19,066 at Rio Tinto Stadium, celebrated by singing and lighting firecrackers behind the American goal.

It is also tradition for households to thoroughly cleanse the house to sweep away ill fortune and make way for good luck, to decorate windows and doors with red paper-cuts and to light firecrackers.

During the summer of 1972, when I was in high school, my friend Duncan and I sat on top of one of the chimneys lighting firecrackers with our cigarettes and throwing them at two other friends, who were sitting on a limestone retaining wall and throwing firecrackers at us.