Sentence examples for more firecrackers from inspiring English sources

A pack of Marlboro Reds is cheaper than a cup of coffee, a liter of Hanoi Vodka costs less than a box of cereal, and the best part of two months each year are given over to a huge party called Tết, which is kind of like New Year's Eve and Mardi Gras rolled into one, but with a few more firecrackers, masks, and games of "catch the duck blindfolded" (note: that is not a euphemism).

"I actively promoted the idea that these were more than firecrackers, with people I know who would leak this information to the poaching community," he said.

I hear too often -- or used to hear, because now the Grad and the Fajr-5 missiles are falling too -- how the rockets that were initially launched at towns like Sderot in southern Israel were nothing more than firecrackers, that the blockade and the other measures the IDF put into place were "wildly disproportionate".

"Only when you could start hearing bullets whizzing around your ear do you realise it was something a lot more serious than firecrackers.

Immediately after the arrest, which started as a speeding case, friends and family of Mr. Mohamed said the charges were unwarranted, asserting that the materials in the car would be, if assembled, not much more powerful than firecrackers.

Readings everywhere will almost certainly surge for a few hours on Sunday night, when millions of Beijingers will unleash a celebratory firestorm despite environmentalists' calls for people to use rockets, sparklers and firecrackers more sparingly.

Steps like he's trod on a firecracker, more metres than any man in the game.

Andrew J. Savage, a lawyer in Charleston, S.C., who is representing Mr. Megahed, said the chemical compounds found in the car belonged to Mr. Mohamed and were "not much more than a firecracker — this is no high-powered explosive".

"Chinese culture is more than dragons and firecrackers".

In a region where cities like Denver, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas dominate life — the West is the most urbanized part of the nation, according to the census — small towns have been more likely to boom like firecrackers or fade slowly.

Emily Watts's performance of the same choreographer's "Firecracker" was longer, more accomplished and scrupulous in its attention to features of Indian dance style, and duller.