Sentence examples for raging firefight from inspiring English sources

Read the Document » APRIL 6, 2008 | NURISTAN PROVINCE Incident Report: A Raging Firefight As they scrambled up the rocks toward a cluster of mud compounds perched high over the remote Shok Valley, a small group of American Green Berets and Afghan troops, known as Task Force Bushmaster, were confronted with a hail of gunfire from inside the insurgent stronghold.

Suddenly huge bangs shook up dust all around as mortar shells came raining down and a raging firefight erupted.

Captives from the firefight still raging around them had given up their boss, the new arrivals were told.

A firefight raged around the green smoke grenade.

A firefight raged for nearly seven hours, with sniper fire pinning down the Green Berets on a 60-foot rock ledge for much of that time.

A 10-minute firefight raged in the heart of the market district, claiming at least two soldiers, one shot through the eye.

As a firefight raged outside his official residence, Sir Rex held fast in his study, pistol in hand, vowing to shoot any Argentine who came through the door.

The militiamen had heavy weapons, including antiaircraft and antitank guns mounted on their trucks, and a fierce firefight raged for three hours.

A web page selling Davies's book, which is to be published under the pseudonym Morgan Jones, says the book reveals "the embassy's secret access that no one but Jones knew about – and that allowed him entry as the savage firefight raged on" and promises readers "Jones's discovery of the murdered ambassador's body and his confirmation that the killing was indeed targeted and sadistically brutal".

After the predawn invasion, firefights raged throughout the day here in Ramallah, and five Palestinians were reported killed.

Workers this afternoon spent hours searching the gardens around the mud-brick compounds and arid, empty fields where fierce firefights raged only a week ago.