Sentence examples for using a water cannon from inspiring English sources

Dozens of protesters, many of them women, tried to push through the crossing into Egypt in two waves and were forced back by Egyptian police officers and soldiers, sometimes using a water cannon and shooting into the air.

Television footage showed riot police using a water cannon to disperse the group of extremists, who had earlier set fire to a union flag and an effigy of the Duke of Cambridge in protest against British rule of the islands.

Pegida's rally was due to start at 2pm on Saturday in a city square and less than two hours later riot police had been sent in to clear the area using a water cannon and pepper spray.

Police using a water cannon on the loyalist protesters.

This video from Instytuska Street shows the police attempting to restore order using a water cannon.

Police officers, in turn, arrested over a dozen of activists, after firing volleys of teargas and using a water cannon to break up groups of rioters.

The police used a water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters, some as young as 12, and one person was arrested, the police said.

In a third night of violence in Northern Ireland, security forces used a water cannon today when Protestant hard-liners attacked them with gasoline bombs and stones at Drumcree, witnesses said.

Just before 1 p.m. and again 40 minutes later, the police used a water cannon to destroy the explosives and a briefcase that sat in the charred wreckage on the sidewalk.

"We used a water cannon, blanks and rubber bullets as well as physical force," said Georgi Kostov, the interior ministry's chief secretary, outside Bulgaria's biggest refugee camp.

It ended in a three-minute shootout between the two groups, after police fired teargas and then used a water cannon to disperse the strikers, who retaliated by firing live ammunition at the police".