How to use "fired" in a sentence

Then, a cannon fired at the monster

If he fired the warning shot, M

Someone fired a gun and a bullet hit a wall just behind him, but he didn't care.

Neither did he see, at the moment the soldier fired, a young boy dressed in rags jump in front of the gun and fall wounded as the bullet meant for Marius hit him in the hand.

The soldiers and the rebels fired at each other at the same time, filling the air with thick clouds of dark smoke

The rebels fired their guns but, when the smoke had cleared, they saw the soldiers, unharmed, steadily aiming the cannon at the barricade

He aimed his gun over the barricade at the leader of the gun crew, and fired

They fired back at the soldiers, killing many men

Both cannons fired together, accompanied by gunfire from soldiers at the end of the street and on the rooftops

Javert walked away slowly and Valjean, waiting for him to turn a corner, fired his gun into the air and returned to the stronghold.

With every step he took, Elliot expected to hear a shot fired a cry of alarm, and the sounds of men in pursuit of quarry.

Maybe Danny could prevent the alarms from sounding, and maybe he could not, so Elliot fired once, and the display screen dissolved into thousands of splinters of glass.

Tamaguchi and some of his closest aides will be fired

'But if there was an argument,' I argued, 'the shot may have been fired in sudden anger, and Lawrence might have been very upset afterwards about what he had done.'

I saw my husband - and I fired.'

'We've now got to find out who fired it

'A reason, yes, but when the shot was fired, Dr Stone was walking to the village with Mrs Protheroe and Lawrence Redding.'

From this gun, their shots were fired at us.

But no one suspected the truth, that the Martians had fired missiles, which were now rushing towards us at a speed of many kilometres a second across the great emptiness of space.

I have no doubt that this was the third of the cylinders they had fired at us from Mars.

The guns fired again, but with no effect.

The guns fired one ineffective shell each, then the soldiers ran away

They aimed their guns well and fired at a distance of about one kilometer.

And then the Martian closest to us raised his tube and fired it towards the guns, with a loud bang that made the ground shake

Some fired only one of these, some two or more

Wherever there was a possibility of guns being hidden, they fired a cylinder of Black Smoke at them, and where the guns could be seen they used the Heat-Ray.

Then came the dull noise of the shots that the Martians fired, and the cylinder flying over the trees and houses and breaking in the neighboring fields.

Guns were fired and knives were used

She fired from six metres away, narrowly missing my brother

The Thunder Child, too, fired a small gun and sent up a string of flags

The Thunder Child fired no gun, but simply sailed at full speed towards them

If the ship had fired one shell, they would have sent it straight to the bottom with the Heat-Ray.

Suddenly, the nearest Martian lowered his tube and fired a cylinder at the Thunder Child

They saw the three thin figures separating and rising out of the water as they moved back towards the shore, and one of them raised the box that fired his Heat-Ray

'After the tenth shot they fired no more - at least until the first cylinder came.'

Seven months ago, when these planets were close together, faint, dark marks appeared on photographs which suggested that a cylinder had been fired from one to the other.