Sentence examples for war gunfire from inspiring English sources

This awards season begins with a rousing chorus of the Star-Spangled Banner, the crash of civil war gunfire, a strangled rebel yell and the sound of my crystal ball falling to the ground and shattering.

Nearly two decades ago, the city's crack-cocaine epidemic led to headlines about gang wars, semiautomatic gunfire in schoolyards and a police blotter that showed more than six homicides a day, on average.

Children here played at war by mimicking gunfire and pretending they were mowing down Indian soldiers.

South Sudan is widely believed to be on the brink of a renewed civil war, and the gunfire was ominous.

I sat through the first 50 minutes of Flames of War — explosions, speeches, gunfire, droning narration, and unvaried background music — downright bored.

Authorities lifted a lockdown on the core of Canada's capital city late Wednesday, hours after a gunman shot and killed a soldier standing guard at a war memorial and gunfire erupted in the Parliament building within yards of the prime minister.

Both ships took a more active role in the Balkan Wars, frequently providing gunfire to support to Ottoman troops in East Thrace.

In his letters and journals, he told of deadly ambushes and the fog of war: ducking from American gunfire and air strikes; losing a friend to friendly fire; being ordered in night missions to "shoot indiscriminately at a target we couldn't see".

She and her sisters participated in the Rif War, where they provided gunfire support to Spanish Army forces.

In August 1914, he participated in the first aerial dogfight of the war, when he exchanged gunfire with an Austro-Hungarian aircraft over western Serbia.

In the early years of World War II, she provided gunfire support to Italian troops in several engagements in the Mediterranean.