Examples of gunfire in a Sentence
We heard gunfire in the distance.
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Police urged the public to take a second look at video of a man walking through the East Side, hours before gunfire erupted at Brown.
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Phil Helsel, NBC news, 19 Dec. 2025
An American visitor described chaos as gunfire erupted at Sydney’s Bondi Beach Hanukkah festival, sending hundreds fleeing.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
Two Brown students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, were killed in the gunfire.
—Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
About two dozen others were struck by gunfire, nearly half of whom were children under 16 years old, and about 60 others were injured in the chaos that followed.
—Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
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Phil Helsel, NBC news, 19 Dec. 2025
An American visitor described chaos as gunfire erupted at Sydney’s Bondi Beach Hanukkah festival, sending hundreds fleeing.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025
Two Brown students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, were killed in the gunfire.
—Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
About two dozen others were struck by gunfire, nearly half of whom were children under 16 years old, and about 60 others were injured in the chaos that followed.
—Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gunfire
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“Gunfire.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gunfire. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.
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gunfire
noun
gun·fire
-ˌfī(ə)r 
: the firing of guns
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