How to Use gunfire in a Sentence

gunfire

noun

• We heard gunfire in the distance.
• Starks died in the the hail of gunfire, shot in the head.
  — David Ovalle, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• 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
• There were reports of gunfire in the area prior to the blaze.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2022
• The sound of gunfire erupts, and one of the glass panels shatters.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
• The gunfire and explosions in The Dark Knight were full of bite and thump.
  — PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024
• Malachi was the third teen under age 18, and the youngest, to be killed by gunfire this year.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Their joy was cut short when the other team failed to cross and died in gunfire.
  — Esther Kang, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
• The two other children in the car, ages 4 and 5, were not hit by gunfire.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 11 Dec. 2024
• The sound of gunfire caused a scare at the station during busy rush hour.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The Mass was in celebration of the first week of school when the sound of gunfire rang out, O'Hara said.
  — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• 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
• His cousin was among the six slain, along with a schoolgirl hit by stray gunfire.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• Explosions and bursts of gunfire shook Kyiv, and black smoke rose from a spot in the north.
  — Nebi Qena and Cara Anna, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2022
• The crackle of gunfire and crump of tank fire ever present.
  — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
• Fighting is so far from the city that no gunfire can be heard, even at night.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Two were killed in the gunfire and another two died in the fire.
  — David Matthews, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
• The report itself reflects a scene still unraveling long after the gunfire stopped.
  — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
• Two were killed in the gunfire and another two died in the fire.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2026
• Two victims were killed by gunfire and two more perished in the fire.
  — Alexandra Chaidez, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026