firecracker

Example Sentences

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A rare moment of high drama flares when a pregnant woman, Agata, played with firecracker fierceness by Anna Chlumsky, barrels down the basement stairs to accost Renia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

Where McCann is a firecracker, Ava Dash is a total snooze, the kind of monotone, self-obsessed personality that gives Gen Z a bad name.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025

"Spencer was a firecracker, that's the best way to put it," Mitrofanov added.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

And for the next three years he was friends with that firecracker, until they started dating around Christmas of their senior year.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2024

If someone had batted an eye, it would have sounded like a firecracker had gone off.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls