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Discover LudwigThe phrase "set off firecrackers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of igniting the wick of a firecracker to create an explosion. For example, "The children were excited to set off firecrackers on the Fourth of July."
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Her old friends set off firecrackers.
In Brussels, protesters set off firecrackers and waved huge banners attacking austerity measures.
Several thousand party workers chanted slogans and set off firecrackers to celebrate her victory.
In small demonstrations, workers beat drums, set off firecrackers and, in a few incidents, threw rocks at the police.
She used to see him set off firecrackers in the street and throw objects into the road.
At this mom's house, we baked, we cleaned, and we set off firecrackers on the Fourth of July.
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Children were setting off firecrackers and men were firing automatic rifles into the air in celebration.
When the shooting in the House began, another representative said, "They're setting off firecrackers".
Finally, New Year's Eve in Honolulu is unremarkable but for the overwhelmingly popular practice of setting off firecrackers.
How do you react, before you find out that it's just people setting off firecrackers at a wedding?
"We think they were setting off firecrackers inside a rotten column," Barbara Burn Dolensek, a trustee of the museum, said recently.
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