Sentence examples for was under gunfire from inspiring English sources
His composure would have surprised most people who knew him, but not the few who had seen him in other moments of physical danger, including moments when he was under gunfire.
All hear the radio reporting of governors from eleven states declaring a state of emergency before coming to a hospital, yet upon arrival was under siege from gunfire.
"There are now too many bodies to count," said Dr Amr Gamal, speaking by phone from inside the hospital after patients being treated there were evacuated under gunfire.
The police chief, who spoke about an hour after the attack began, said that the situation was under control and that the gunfire had stopped, but that security forces were searching for militants who might have escaped.
Well, one of the first things we witness is bodies under gunfire — faces split wide open, and breasts sheared off.
Activists and residents in Hama said the city had been under nearly continuous gunfire since early Wednesday, with the tanks heading toward Assi Square before dawn.
As the televised briefing cut to a military monitor by the key Castello Road into Aleppo, which has been under Syria regime control, gunfire broke out and the Russian officer dived for cover.
An attempted military coup is under way in Burundi with heavy gunfire in the capital Bujumbura.
There was always gunfire.
There was automatic gunfire, explosions.
