How to Use firefight in a Sentence

firefight

noun
  • No one was hurt in the firefight.
    — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • If there’s a two-minute firefight, there’s a lot that goes on.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
  • And then in the final episode, the cat gets shot in a firefight.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
  • This line has not moved in more than five months, but firefights are frequent.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Within an hour, a crew of about 50 firefights put out the blaze.
    — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The navy said its forces had engaged in a firefight with gunmen, who then fled.
    — Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Allen, who was shot in the head during the firefight, survived.
    — Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2017
  • But guards heard or spotted the raiders and a fierce firefight lighted up the night.
    — W.j. Hennigan, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
  • During the firefight, weather radar picked up the black-gray smoke from the fire.
    — Glenn E. Rice katy Bergen matt Campbell robert A. Cronkleton toriano Porter, kansascity.com, 20 June 2017
  • The couple were killed later that day in a firefight with the police.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • But the moisture from the storm ended up aiding in the firefight.
    — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Its crew chief was killed and the others captured after a firefight on the beach.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2022
  • In the middle of a frantic firefight, this is way too unwieldy.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The firefight ended when Neal killed himself with a shot above his left eye.
    — Dale Kasler, Anita Chabria and Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 13 Apr. 2018
  • But the attempt to arrest him turned into a fierce firefight on the streets of the city.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Officers on both sides of the border raised their guns, and a firefight broke out.
    — Rachel St. John, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • The day after Dan was killed, my platoon fought a twelve-hour firefight from its rooftop.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Esquire, 23 Mar. 2017
  • At least two large explosions were seen during the firefight.
    — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 27 May 2026
  • Keils lived, but in the firefight, his 16-year-old son was struck four times and died two days later.
    — al, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The suspects fled the scene of the firefight in a silver Audi.
    — Fox News, 29 July 2022
  • In the tenth hour of a firefight with the Taliban, he was badly wounded.
    — Christa Case Bryant, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2019
  • At least 12 units will not be able to be occupied after the firefight.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Homen was also killed in the firefight, the DA's office said.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 5 June 2021
  • When a white man allegedly tried to disarm a Black man, a gun went off and a firefight broke out.
    — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • In the middle of one firefight, Lozano also got knocked senseless by the blast wave from a tank gun.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Think instant load times for every map and no stutter, even during the most chaotic firefights.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In the streets of the neighborhood, a firefight was picking up, and the clatter of machine guns echoed about.
    — Andrew E. Kramer Nicole Tung, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Kononov was killed in a firefight for a steel plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The Internet is now full of clips that show firefights, replete with all the sound and fury of battle.
    — Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
  • Eubank has done it dozens of times, but in the past could rely on stealth and the agility of small numbers in the event of a firefight.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023

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