gunfire

Example Sentences

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Officers potentially wasting thousands of hours in pursuit of car backfires and construction noise mislabeled as gunfire has not deterred the New York Police Department from continuing to use it.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Ratner, of course, earned Hollywood over $2 billion with his blockbusters about gunfire and exploding cars.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

Neighbours braved the gunfire to come and help, and a vehicle was found to transport his wife to hospital, ultimately saving her life.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

He didn’t like gunfire and so was relegated to a small dog run, open to the elements, where he slept in a barrel filled with straw.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Nine fearsome, ugly, half-naked, fifty-feet-long brutes lay sprawled over the ground in various grotesque attitudes of sleep, and the sound of their snoring was indeed like gunfire in a battle.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl