Sentence examples for under gunfire from inspiring English sources

Last year, the police also came under gunfire from dissident republicans during the rioting.

The police officers and firefighters who arrived to extinguish the flames came under gunfire.

"He would follow tanks and film them, go under gunfire to film the regime's violations".

9.10pm: Ben talks about being really good at leading a team under gunfire.

"That's quite a lot of weight when you're running up a hill under gunfire," he said.

The police came under gunfire from "heavy weapons", according to the French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve.

Imagine the children of a 'martyr' – who believe their father died under French gunfire – discovering that he perished under Algerian torture!" The real story of the much more recent Algerian war – between the Islamists and the government in the 1990s (total deaths 250,000, a hundred thousand more than in Syria today) – still cannot be told by Algerian historians.

Early on, the company's patrols came under sporadic gunfire.

The army said troops shot back after coming under Palestinian gunfire in the area.

In Mosul, trouble erupted for a second straight day, both times after the Americans said marines came under sustained gunfire.

After each police volley, youths rushed to carry off the wounded to ambulances, in one case under continuing gunfire.