| She stretches, her stiff joints snapping and cracking loudly, sounding just like a firecracker when lit. |
| Will this bizarre heist sizzle like a bottle rocket or fizzle like a defective firecracker? |
| The sparkler demonstrates how to get bright, sparkling light from a firework, and the firecracker shows how to create an explosion. |
| My mother could distinguish gunshots from a firecracker or a car backfiring. |
| Among the dead were seven people trapped in houses set alight when a firecracker ignited a stack of fireworks. |
| In the celebrations local partygoers threw a firecracker, and the four thought they were under fire. |
