Examples of gunfire in a Sentence
We heard gunfire in the distance.
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The minutes spent waiting for Detroit police to arrive, listening to the screams for help from those escaping and others injured by gunfire, felt like hours to Kim Slone.
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Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2024
A little more than two hours later, a 27-year-old woman was struck in the buttocks by gunfire at 1:06 a.m. in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024
Officers then found a female victim who was inside a nearby home when she was struck by gunfire, police said.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 11 July 2024
Detectives on Thursday arrested two suspects in connection with a Wednesday afternoon shooting that wounded two others struck by gunfire on Broadway in Sacramento’s Land Park neighborhood, police said.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 11 July 2024
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Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2024
A little more than two hours later, a 27-year-old woman was struck in the buttocks by gunfire at 1:06 a.m. in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 July 2024
Officers then found a female victim who was inside a nearby home when she was struck by gunfire, police said.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 11 July 2024
Detectives on Thursday arrested two suspects in connection with a Wednesday afternoon shooting that wounded two others struck by gunfire on Broadway in Sacramento’s Land Park neighborhood, police said.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 11 July 2024
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“Gunfire.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gunfire. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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gunfire
noun
gun·fire
-ˌfī(ə)r 
: the firing of guns
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