Word Finder - gunfire

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Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.

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Let's hide in the trees to avoid the gunfire.

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The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.

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Killing people became much easier and faster once armies started using gunfire.

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The time of firing of the morning gun or the evening gun.

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Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.

The air was filled with the smell of sulfur and the sound of gunfire.

Apart from hearing sporadic gunfire the day was pretty quiet.

There's even a 9pm curfew - signaled, somewhat forcefully, by a volley of gunfire across the valley.

By comparison, of the 46 British dreadnoughts built, five were sunk, none by gunfire.

I was told that two lads who jumped into the water after me had been hit by gunfire.

Toward dinner time, we could hear the sound of distant gunfire.

The car was followed by a military jeep, spraying the crowd with gunfire.

In spite of gunfire and bombing we found native traders on cycles offering us tinned pineapple and cigarettes.

The recording picked up some loud retorts, which sound like gunfire or explosions.

It is believed that three civilians were killed by army snipers replying to the gunfire.

Explosions and gunfire are often too muted and the sub-woofer is rarely troubled.

He makes a break for the door and runs inside as gunfire rattles off behind him.

On one occasion, around lunchtime, people in the village heard airplane gunfire and a German plane swooped overhead, firing its guns.

The demo starts you off in a 2nd story room with all the windows being shattered by gunfire.

These characteristics make it useful for both utility and attack, and when properly armored, choppers can be formidable mobile battle platforms, wreaking havoc with missiles and gunfire of all calibers.

Zipper Interactive immerses you into the game with superb gunfire sounds, background noise, and ally/enemy chatter.

Yes, there's some gunfire, drinking, singing, melodrama, good guys and bad guys.

More gunfire deafened her in the small confines of the garage, and men screamed and fell.

By Dec. 1919 what had been regarded as a Russo-German danger was averted, the Russian volunteers on the left flank having suffered heavily from the English gunfire.

Two British battleships were sunk off the peninsula (" Triumph " May 25, " Majestic " May 27), and owing to the risks run by warships and transports while in the open the Allied troops on shore were thenceforward almost deprived of support from naval gunfire, while reinforcements and stores were mostly brought from Mudros to the various landing places in small craft.

On one occasion, we had to exchange gunfire with the Klan.

However, the gallant Rawalpindi was sunk by gunfire with the loss of 238 out the crew of 276.

The IRA fired several shots at Lowry who was not injured but a lecturer at the university was wounded by the gunfire.

At least one child, a ten year-old girl, was killed by heartless gunfire.

There was a minaret from a mosque popping up only a few yards away, also damaged by gunfire.

British Airborne troops had attempted glider landings but many of the gliders had gone off course or been accidentally destroyed by naval gunfire.

The naval commander is assisted in the control of naval gunfire by navy liaison representatives located with supported ground forces.

There was sporadic gunfire at this stage - bursts of automatic gunfire, from time to time, interspersed with single shots.

They entered the harbor of Dunkirk amid heavy gunfire.

Whilst attending to and bringing in wounded, he continually exposed himself to enemy gunfire.

If you hear gunfire, duck and hide away from the windows.

None had time to grab the weapons under their cots before gunfire exploded through the garage door and slammed into them.

More gunfire and another smaller explosion went off somewhere else in the house.

Daylight brought the sounds of gunfire and rockets on top of the mountain that didn't cease even when night fell again.