How to Use gunfire in a Sentence

gunfire

noun
Definition of gunfirenext
  • We heard gunfire in the distance.
  • An ambulance was struck by gunfire, but no officers or paramedics were injured, police said.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Other officers unleashed a barrage of gunfire in response.
    — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Police responding to reports of gunfire saw a suspicious vehicle leaving the area.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The area has long been prone to violence, and multiple neighborhood residents said the threat of gunfire has intensified in recent years.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The Lafayette Square area club has been a magnet for trouble and police had responded to reports of gunfire there at least six times before Williams was killed.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Adair and a Double Springs police officer were both wounded Tuesday during an exchange of gunfire.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 20 Jan. 2023
  • But the sounds of gunfire could be heard as the fire alarms blared in the background.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • The two young brothers were wounded in the leg by the gunfire.
    — Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 12 July 2023
  • At some point, the explosions and gunfire will stop, and the war in the Gaza Strip will end.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The videos appeared to include the sounds of heavy gunfire.
    — Camilla Alcini, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2024
  • When the gunfire stopped, blood and bodies littered the dance floor.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • He was also shot in the left knee and right calf by the gunfire from Carlson and Del Toro.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The parents in the car said their daughter was struck by gunfire.
    — CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • At about the seven-minute mark of the video, the second round of gunfire occurs.
    — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Many of them meet twice a week to play for two hours as the rat-tat-tat of gunfire echoes across Port-au-Prince.
    — Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
  • In video recorded as the first bursts of gunfire sounded, Aldean stops singing, then flees the stage.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The crackle of gunfire and crump of tank fire ever present.
    — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The bus driver pulled the bus away in an attempt to get away from the gunfire, police said.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The previous year, gunfire claimed the lives of 12 students.
    — Joshua Q. Nelson, Fox News, 2 June 2023
  • Audio from the bodycam picks up the sound of gunfire from the first incident.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 16 June 2023
  • School shootings and the rate of children and teens killed by gunfire both reached all-time highs since at least 1999.
    — James Bandler, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The city of Parkland warned residents that the sound of gunfire could last into the evening and be heard more than a mile from the school.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The sounds of dogs barking, beaters yelling, and gunfire echoed through the woods as other hunters saw game.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 6 June 2024
  • No one was hit by the gunfire, but a window was shattered by a bullet.
    — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • At this point in the video, the apparent sound of gunfire captured by the bodycam is heard at least three times more.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
  • The burst of gunfire killed Lopez-Galvan and injured 22 others, with half the victims under the age of 16.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Roughly half of those wounded by gunfire were under the age of 16.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, was fatally struck in the gunfire.
    — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 30 Oct. 2024
  • According to court documents, witnesses said Gillespie collapsed in the house's front yard after gunfire ensued between the man with the laser handgun and a third armed man.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Oct. 2024

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