How to Use fire away in a Sentence

fire away

verb
  • Popovich wants Aldridge to fire away even more from beyond the arc this year.
    — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Let the season play out, the Giants plead, and feel free to fire away.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The Jazz are unafraid to fire away from deep, even early in the shot clock.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Moody started firing away early — and the ball kept rippling through the net.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Craig is that necessary glue guy while Ross has sixth man written all over him with the green light to fire away.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2023
  • But much like in the first set, Medvedev kept firing away, finding enough crazy angles and lines to get control.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • But Enfield encouraged him to shake off the misses, to keep firing away.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Mike LeDuc has a long history of letting his players fire away from three-point range.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • This season’s stronger, more confident Curry has to have license to fire away.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Nov. 2021
  • On a more mundane level, people in many places were hiding fire away in closed stoves, steam engines, and furnaces.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Mar. 2025
  • This will get loaded into hundreds of syringes, ready to fire away into hungry flamingo mouths.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019
  • Officials also said the front may switch the wind direction to the southwest, which would help push the fire away from villages.
    — Anchorage Daily News Staff and Wire Reports, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
  • The Knicks shorted the 3-point market, triple-dog daring Boston to fire away.
    — Bill Speros, Boston Herald, 7 May 2025
  • But the biggest focus is getting White to simply fire away with confidence.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • More than 200 firefighters were in the air and on the ground trying to keep the fire away from neighborhoods.
    — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The solution might be to double-team the post from the wing, leaving shooters and daring the Aztecs to fire away.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The Nuggets could only promise him a bench role, a veteran’s minimum salary and a green light to fire away.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 22 Mar. 2026
  • But that won’t prevent Ukraine’s biggest guns from firing away for the foreseeable future.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The brain is wonderfully self-sustaining, even after many decades of firing away.
    — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
  • On one first-quarter 3-pointer Martin had time to square up, look down to set his feet, and fire away with no resistance.
    — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
  • Short of conjuring flames from your fingertips, there’s no faster or more efficient means to ignite and control fire away from home.
    — Chris Meehan, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2023
  • The team from Provo, Utah isn’t shy about launching it from deep, firing away at the fourth-highest rate in the country.
    — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Olli Määttä fired away, only to have his attempt blocked by Jesper Fast.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2024
  • After all, wind can shift 180 degrees in a split second, pushing fire away from your house and towards a neighbor's.
    — CBS News, 20 Jan. 2025
  • But the thin strip of sandy dirt where bowlers fire away at batsmen — a rare feature at the city’s parks — is still visible to anyone in the know, and to old friends back for visits.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • So the Dragons were quick to every pass, jumped over the top of every screen and, most of the game, would not allow the Grizzlies to fire away from the arc.
    — Glenn Reeves, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2025
  • In The Substance, Moore gets to train all that doubt, anxiety, and fear back on the industry and fire away with brutal force.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Djokovic, meanwhile, tried to shorten points by hitting drop shots of his own, but the tactic kept backfiring, with Prižmić able to chase them down and fire away winners.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Finally Rybakina, who’d been firing away from the baseline, came to the net, on the offensive.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Why would the Suns trade him for someone who is coming off an knee injury in the bubble and seems allergic to shooting 3s when analytics say fire away from deep.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2020

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