Sentence examples for sustained firefight from inspiring English sources

Alexis died after a sustained firefight with police and security staff.

"We don't have the capability to survive a sustained firefight," the sergeant said.

He offered a different casualty toll, saying three children had been killed and four wounded after a sustained firefight.

But, given that the tomb was the site of a sustained firefight, they believed that they would have escalated the conflict and caused more casualties on both sides by bringing in tanks to rescue him.

Then, on Thursday night, American officials say, a troop patrol was ambushed near his headquarters in Sadr City, setting off a sustained firefight that killed two American soldiers and wounded four others.

The 10th Mountain Division had two soldiers killed in the fighting, which was the longest sustained firefight by regular US Army forces since the Vietnam War.

"They'd flank us, and we'd flank them, just like a chess match," said Sgt. Jason Lynd, another squad leader in Company C. In June the Marines ended up in sustained firefights the first four times they left their outpost.

The Army has dismissed some news reports that Private Lynch's wounds included stabs and gunshots sustained in a firefight.

In Mosul on Tuesday, an American soldier died of wounds sustained in a firefight at a home where it was believed an insurgent had been hiding, the United States military said.

British military officials announced that a British soldier had died from wounds sustained Monday during a firefight in the southern city of Basra.

At the battlefront today, American tactics appeared to follow the pattern set on Tuesday, when a period of intensive bombing in the wake of early firefights in the Shah-i-Kot Valley gave way to less sustained bombing attacks interspersed with helicopter-borne ground assaults.