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Sentence Examples The New York Times reports that Marine officers turned a small firefight into a pitched battle without authorization from headquarters. As the firefight continues, the commander orders his men to conserve ammunition. A firefight broke out among the clansmen and others in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. That firefight started when snipers took some potshots at the Marines providing security around here. A dogface who waded ashore at Normandy and fought at the Battle of Bastogne gives us with realistic detail a horrifying sense of the firefight. It was not inconceivable that we might soon be in a firefight, so we were leaning well forward in our foxholes. I figured that if we got into a firefight, it was a good idea to have the medic as my friend. The firefight left palm and pomegranate groves smouldering, and large craters in the ground on the outskirts of the town. A Marine being spokesman said the U.S. forces are making inroads into the city, the same spokesman adding, the Marines are winning every firefight they engage in. He had a firefight with the fedayeen and some of them got killed. That team fought their way back to the CIA annex with other Americans and sustained a low-level firefight throughout the evening. Not an inappropriate night for the Chief Witch to fall off his broomstick and perish in a fierce firefight. Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages. There is something about a firefight at night, something about the mechanical elegance of an M-60 machine gun. The day after the assault, ISAF announced that forces had stumbled upon the dead women after a firefight with insurgents. The U.S. then contacted the Mexican marines, who did not hesitate, engaging Beltran and his gunmen in a 90-minute firefight. A predawn firefight has left at least one, and possibly as many as four pro-Russian activists dead. This is made clear in a key scene from the first episode when the battle hardened character dubbed Sergeant Scream leads his troops in a firefight. Several hundred were injured, some seriously. The government and the red-shirted protesters each accuse the other of starting the firefight. I think it was probably the biggest firefight and the largest loss of life we've had in 50 years, or something like that. Show More Sentences In 2002, North Korea suffered at least 30 casualties from a firefight with Southern warships. On August 3, 2006, Corporal Bryce Keller, Sarah's husband, was killed in a firefight in Kandahar. At that moment, she recalls, she heard nothing at all despite the continuing firefight. The firefight in and around the two helicopters was said to be decisive, and few knew with any accuracy what had happened. A four hour firefight ensued, which resulted in the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein. Astley's infantry charged the New Model line without the usual firefight and it buckled. During the intense firefight that followed, four Kurdish fighters died, including three of Ahmed's cousins. Late Friday evening, NBC broadcast new video of the latest firefight in Watertown. A firefight broke out and another cop was killed, but this time there was no getting away. Tamerlan was killed in a firefight, and Dzhohkhar survived to be taken alive by police after a 22-hour siege. But Brennan in that briefing said the al Qaeda leader died in a firefight, a claim the White House later retracted. A firefight broke out, during which two of his captors were killed and the others escaped. The patrol returned fire during the ambush and one peacekeeper was injured in the arm during the firefight, according to a press release issued by UNAMID today. A BRITISH soldier was shot dead during a firefight in southern Afghanistan. Had we run into poachers, it was going to be a firefight. In the jungles of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, eight Guatemalan special forces soldiers lost their lives in a firefight with a hateful militia group. Sergeant Benedict immediately left the security of his own vehicle, exposing himself to intense small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire, and ran to the other vehicle to provide support until the firefight was won. Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who was a 15-year-old child soldier when he allegedly killed a U. S. serviceman during a firefight in Afghanistan. In September 1993, the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry serving in the UN forces found themselves in the middle of the heaviest firefight a Canadian unit had then experienced since the Korean War. Earlier, the commission heard from two prosecution witnesses and viewed a video that US forces had retrieved from the compound in Afghanistan where the firefight took place that is at the heart of the case against Omar Khadr. Show More Sentences Several Marines were killed during a firefight with Fedayeen in the urban fighting. The robot defenders ambush the Joe team and a firefight ensues. The soldier died in a firefight in the early hours of the morning, a spokesman said. In February, a firefight ensues at the compound of the religious cult group known as the 'Branch Davidians' in Waco, Texas, when U. S. ATF agents arrive to arrest the group's leader David Koresh on weapons charges. They were discovered by chance and killed in a firefight. They were the only survivors in a separated element of Pokorny's platoon in the summer of 1970 after a firefight in a no-name village. In the firefight a Liberator was shot down, but a depth charge from the Liberator G for George cracked and flooded the hull. Two security force personnel, an anti-government fighter and a woman were killed during a firefight in south Kashmir's Doda district late on Sunday, police officials said. A massive firefight at the Jashari compound led to the massacre of 60 Albanians, of which eighteen were women and ten were under the age of sixteen. But in the real world, these stories pale in comparison to that of the LCPL at Maxwell Hall describing the firefight in which he's wounded and his buddy's killed. A SOLDIER from the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment has been killed in a firefight with enemy forces in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said. The entry control troops started firing back and a firefight commenced. Examples from Classical Literature The suspect died during a wild car chase and firefight with police, and another heavily armed man remained at large in a suburban Watertown. More precisely, it's about vets of that war readjusting to civilian life, although director Irwin Winkler does stage a fairly impressive firefight early in the film. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with firefight What is the plural of firefight? What is the noun for firefight? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words fire-extinguisher fire extinguisher fire-engine fire-eaters fire-eater fired up firefighter firefighters firefighting firefish fireflies firefly 9-letter Words Starting With f fi fir fire firef firefi firefig firefigh