Sentence examples for using as a firing from inspiring English sources

Two-thirds of the Puerto Rican island's residents voted for the Navy to immediately leave the eastern area it has been using as a firing range.

The final piece is a common nail, used as a firing pin, that can be found in a hardware store.

The bombing occurred near the Kandahar airport at Tarnak Farms, a former base of Al Qaeda used as a firing range for American and allied troops.

The station has been used as a firing range since 1942; the walls are so thick that the shots reportedly cannot be heard outside.

A deafening explosion ripped into an asphalt road 200 yards from a house alliance soldiers used as a firing position, shaking the ground and sending up a 200-foot mushroom plume of debris.

But such funds are seen as too little and too late for those who have had to leave Vieques to find work on the main island of Puerto Rico, or the neighboring island of Culebra, which itself had been used as a firing range until the 1970's.

Thunderous explosions were audible miles away, and black smoke curled into the sky after an American jet bombed an inner-city hotel 400 yards from the shrine that American officers said had been used as a firing point by the rebels.

Later, she was moved to Friedrichsort, outside Kiel, where she was used as a firing platform for torpedo training through World War I.

She was based in Friedrichsort outside Kiel and used as a firing platform for torpedo training until she was broken up for scrap in 1920 at Rüstringen.

Combustion was involved in a number of industrial construction projects in the 1960's in which asbestos was used as a fire retardant.

Engine Company 53 was used as a fire station until 1974, and is now owned by Manhattan Community Access Corporation, a cable television station.