How to use "firing" in a sentence

"They're firing at us!"

As other guns began firing at the smaller barricade, the rebels fought back bravely, but they were running out of bullets

The guard swung the submachine gun into firing position as they swept past him.

It may be that the gases from the firing caused the Martians inconvenience

At about three o'clock I heard the sound of a gun, firing regularly, from the direction of Chertsey

'We can't stay here,' I said, and as I spoke the firing started again for a moment on the common.

When I lifted my head it was looking towards the guns that were still firing across the river

The Martians, alarmed by the approach of a crowd, had killed a number of people with a quick-firing gun, the story said

'They come from Weybridge and Walton, and they said guns have been heard at Chertsey, heavy firing, and that soldiers told them to move out at once because the Martians are corning

It was this howling and the firing of the guns at Ripley and Weybridge that we heard at Walton

These continued for a quarter of an hour, firing blindly at Martians too far away to be seen

Think of four or five of them with men inside, firing Heat-Rays back at the Martians!'