How To Use Fired In A Sentence

A few weeks later I was fired from my job at Hunter College.
The soldier fired the rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags.
Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
Our militia fired off volley after volley from anti - aircraft artillery.
Helmeted police fired dozens of rounds of tear gas and kicked and clubbed unarmed protesters — one of whom cowered on the ground, covering his face. Tunisian leader flees amid protests; PM takes over

Harte fired the ball into the bottom corner before heading for the corner flag to celebrate.
Officially, Carter resigned, but everyone knows he was fired.
The black and gold range has an electric oven combined with a gas fired hob.
A short umbilical cable rolled out with the rocket which was fired by electrical impulse, breaking the cord.
A catapult fired point-blank, and flames broke over the roiled water, but it was pointless.
Bobileff and crew fettled and cajoled and fairly bullwhipped the old beast back together, then fired her up and into a transporter just hours before the show.
Her schemes backfired on herself,and she lost her boyfriend forever.
The airline fired him for being drunk.
Since I haven't read anybody else saying it yet, I'll jump up and be the first: they should be fired, at a bare minimum.
It was a far harder opportunity than the one he had spurned just seconds earlier, when he fired against the bar from five yards. The Sun
He decided on a plan of action but it backfired horribly. Times, Sunday Times
He blustered and bullyragged; he had been their boss and he had been fired without cause, he insisted. Joan of Arc of the North Woods
A warning shot was fired but he fled when none of the heavily armoured commandos was able to give chase. Times, Sunday Times
The bonus issue brought Democrats and Republicans together in a way unseen all year. Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank suggested the executives should be fired.
I then angled the bandsaw table over so I could run resawing passes parallel to the worst of the cracking, and fired it through for a number of passes. Stu's Shed
Any reasonable scenario must include a sizable amount of new gas-fired plants. German U-turn Won't Change Gazprom's Direction
Her masterful brush strokes and use of colour fired up many critics and curators and received immediate recognition.
Now he aimed and fired, lying "doggo" behind his favourite stone, while bullets from the enemy's trenches flattened themselves upon it, or buried themselves harmlessly in the dry hot soil. The Dop Doctor
The units will have fully fitted offices with suspended ceilings, recessed lighting, painted and plastered walls, perimeter trunking and gas fired central heating.
You said “Let's remember who fired the first salvoes.” Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
The crew tried to drive it away, and one man fired a rifle at it.
Well Scanlon was in the act of dismounting when the first shot was fired at Kennedy, and Scanlon became, well, flurried, and fell to his knees.
When the ship fired its polaron beam at one mine, others within that defensive sphere reacted to the threat, homing in on the source of the beam and attacking it en masse. Creative Couplings
Eventually she was fired from her job at a publishing house.
In Tang Hall, 524 people signed objecting letters, and 72 protest letters were fired off to city chiefs.
Last year a man lost the sight in his left eye after he answered a knock at his door and was hit by a stone fired from a catapult.
His dramatic solos and stage hops also fired up the fans during "A Favor House Atlantic" and "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" -- both 2003 opuses that often sounded like Rush homages, with drummer Chris Pennie on the beat and everywhere else, and lyrics that only a CIA cryptanalyst or college-age C&C fan could decipher. Prog rockers Coheed and Cambria take on 9:30 club in Washington
Ishrat was seated next to Javed who was driving the car when the crime branch team fired and punctured the rear left tyre.
The new legislation which was intended to `soak up "the millions of them floating round the country has backfired in its purpose. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
Trip flares, attached to low pickets, can be placed around a position or in an ambush site, and may either be fired when an enemy touches a tripwire or initiated by the defender or ambusher.
He was hauled before the managing director and fired.
Many sports fans who would rather watch the Super Bowl with a bunch of beer-swilling buddies than be present at the birth of their first child often recite that fired old saw about hockey being more violent than any other sport.
According to first findings, the guard was shot down with eight or nine bullets from a machine gun fired by an unknown number of assailants who had approached him.
The police fired teargas in the central shopping district to disperse the rioters, creating panic among shoppers.
Six or seven gunshots were heard, but it was not clear who fired them.
Despite the skill with which Jellicoe and Beatty had enmeshed the High Seas Fleet, Iron Duke had fired only nine salvos when Scheer turned his ships around and vanished into the mist. Castles of Steel
That fellow was fired because he had loafed on the job.
Unlike the buccaneers, who had fired high to cripple their enemies above decks, the French fifed low to smash the hull of their assailant. Captain Blood
If the tests are successful it sees the eventual commercial use of petcoke as a way of cutting the plant's costs to help it compete with cheaper gas-fired power stations.
The evidence that white phosphorus shells have been fired as a smoke screen is so compelling that the denials have increasingly lacked credibility. Times, Sunday Times
Three of the Pucelle's heavy guns fired together, their sound almost stunning Sharpe, who was going from gunport to gunport and stabbing at the French with his cutlass. Sharpe's Trafalgar
He fired and hit the outermost ring of the target.
Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
Flemings, and plans of bitter enmity against them; and the sight of his murdered father, with that look and tone of the old Dane, fired his spirit, and breaking from his trance of silent awe and grief, he exclaimed, "I see it, and dearly shall the traitor Fleming abye it! The Little Duke
Some of us standing in front of the Palace flinched when the first salvo was fired. Times, Sunday Times
Those who mentioned the subject were unanimous in voicing the wish that Casey Stengel, recently fired as manager of the New York Yankees, would be field manager of the new team here. 50 years ago, the Senators left and arrived
He sells the electricity from his methane-fired generator to his utility for 7.25 cents per kilowatt hour.
The imperative to move quickly past fossil fuels to clean energies - wind, solar and biomass - and conservation measures such as retrofitting homes, was noted by those reporting that 2009 and 2010 have been the hottest years on record, and Boulder and Jefferson County (where Coors operates a coal-fired plant) have earned an "F" grade for ozone levels in recent years. Michele Swenson: The Urgency of Toxic Coal Ash Regulation and the Move to Clean Energy
Those scientific minds brave enough to point out these obvious flaws get fired, while the insane, lazy, and stupid continue to uphold a broken system that clearly doesn't work, punishes innocent citizens, overcrowds prisons, and generally increases suffering. Allison Kilkenny: Government Adviser Fired For Saying Alcohol Is More Dangerous Than Drugs
She fired an arrow at the target.
But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
It did not say who had fired the shells. Times, Sunday Times
You will be disgraced, fired, and potentially arrested.
During shooting there was all occasional whiff of smoke at the rear of the cylinder and examination of the fired cases found them covered with soot from end to end.
Ammunition stocks disappeared as artillery fired projectiles far in excess of prewar projections.
The odds of him dying early, of Smith having early onset Alzheimer's Disease, hell, of just getting a minor concussion which he plays through and doesn't dare tell anyone because he's afraid of being fired -- NFL players have the crappiest contracts in all of professional major league sports, not to mention those contracts are year-to-year (if I remember correctly) -- just went sky-fracking-high. Archive 2009-10-01
Heating in all houses is gas-fired, and allowances for kitchen, tiling, feature fireplaces, and sanitary ware is included.
Twelve years ago: A US frigate fired warning shots across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman -- apparently the first shots fired by the United States in the Persian Gulf crisis.
As he exhaled, Erik let his arrow fly with a sharp twang of the string, the sound echoed thirty times over as the rest of the cadets fired.
His attempt at a joke misfired.
Mr. Icahn's offer reflected a view that merchant power generators like Dynegy, which owns 18 coal-fired and gas-fired power plants, are undervalued because of current low power prices. Dynegy Top Officers, Directors to Leave
An Israeli official says Palestinian militants fired on Israeli soldiers from the courtyard of a U.N. school where dozens of people died in fiery explosions. Coming Soon? Hamas' Media Massacre
Three people were shot and injured as security forces fired into the air to disperse them. Times, Sunday Times
The only other fad I don't think has been debunked yet is the "flechette". 3mm super-strong tungsten darts fired at velocities past 5000 fps. What do you predict will be the next fad in rifle cartridges? We have done long and skinny, short and fat and long and fat.
Shots were fired and Tony narrowly escaped with his life.
The starter fired his starting gun.
The apartments and penthouses have double-glazed redwood framed windows, fitted kitchens and gas-fired central heating.
And, given the club's pressing financial problems, barbed comments continue to be fired in the Trust's direction from some fans who believe the money could have been better spent.
Inside the box was a never been fired, still in the cosmoline, Browning BAR. He said he tried calling me to see if I wanted it, but I didn't answer my phone. The Ones That Got Away
The kitchen faces part of the restaurant and I was encouraged to see that they had installed a wood-fired oven for baking pizzas.
Yesterday, as our correspondent's account made clear, an ad hoc motorised cavalry of scores of youth fighters on pick-up trucks charged at Ajdabiya, only to retreat in disarray when Gaddafi's tanks, which were dug in around the town, fired back. Libya: Moving targets | Editorial
But the plan backfired when the driver couldn't get the flash car to start as they left the restaurant - leaving the couple at the mercy of the paparazzi.
You'd eventually get fired when the tightrope walker wouldn't go on because he'd ricked his ankle - but of course on paper it would say that ‘Stephen didn't meet targets.’
A missile catapulted from the Columbia's missile tube and fired its rocket motor.
Although he ran for his life and fired into the tires, the car came so close that it brushed his pant leg. Globe and Mail
If you can't deliver improved sales figures, you're fired.
One of the tanks on the range fired a shell. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
The kilns that calcine the lime used in cement are often natural gas fired.
Correct, the guy who works at GM does not get demoted OR get fired, just pays fines and costs and goes on with his life, oh ya that same GM guy does not get his name splattered across this rag either. "my 2 cent wrote on Jul 9, 2009 8: 10 AM: in response to the above post wrote on Jul 9, 2009 8: 12 AM: Undefined
Being Sunday it was foul weather nothing remarkable hapned this day onely the enemy fired at our men on Lechmers [196] Point and wounded one and our men returned the fire from copple hill. The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes
He was hauled before the managing director and fired.
Nadal shanked a forehand to give up two break points and then fired another just past the baseline.
Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.
At some stage when I heard what I can say are shots.] [I] t was in the process, because when teargas is fired I think it gives the same sound as of bullets. 'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
With the score knotted at 17, Ryan opted to go for a fourth-and-two from the Oakland 37-yard line late in the third, but the call backfired when Sanchez missed Plaxico Burress on a slant route. Sloppy Jets Stumble Against the Raiders
The gas-fired power station is currently under construction at the cost of €500m and will be in operation late next year.
Throughout, National Grid has stuck to its position that the new line was needed to ensure security of supply when new gas-fired power stations came on stream.
If Miller was trying to create his own scenario to get a title rematch, it may have backfired, at least for now. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
However, the move backfired as Williams chopped the game-winning hit over a drawn-in infield to lift Minnesota to just its third win in eight games. USATODAY.com
The article recommends writing about your sex life, getting fired for writing a weblog and peddling extreme opinions.
The militants also fired few shots to scare the villagers and later fled from the spot.
These aircraft were converted to target drones with the designation of F4B - 4A and most met an inglorious end while being fired at by Navy gunners.
Bullets impacted the floor around me as I pulled the trigger and fired back.
It has fired more employees, at a stroke, than at any time in its 114-year history.
It's hard to do justice to the succulence of the pears in light frangipane sponge, encased in triumphant, well-fired, crunchy pastry.
But then, of course, it becomes all-fired difficult to explain why you think certain things should matter to everybody.
Seven people were wounded when soldiers fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds.
On January 28, 2005, according to St. Jean, he became the highest-ranking and longest-serving professional scouter in the history of the BSA to be fired.
There has been a lot of drinking. We are cracking down now. Anyone who gets caught is fired.
Congressional representatives and religious leaders fired off faxes condemning violence at abortion clinics.
They fired several rounds from handguns and semi-automatic rifles at the vehicle, which finally came to a halt about 500 metres from the depot with all four wheels punctured.
The gunman fired three times in rapid succession.
The answer was returned in a still louder laugh, and in a shot fired at the challenger, the momentary light of the explosion revealing, as Dauntrees imagined, a cloaked figure presenting a harquebuss through the window. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
He will identify those two automatic pistols as weapons he test-fired at the Ballistics Lab in order to obtain exemplary rounds.
More brain synapses are fired during a 3D presentation - it is physically more appealing. 3D Gets a Boost of Positive News - Really? « FirstShowing.net
Their plan backfired, and soon the fire grew out of control and they fled in panic.
Another time, the Skink commander was fired on by a sniper. Unhurt but furious, the commander directed the Skink's guns to fire in the direction of the sniper.
In your heart of hearts, you know you don't really care whether what's-his-name gets kicked off the island, or fired, or wins the bachelorette or whatever.
His actions led to him being fired last year for gross misconduct. The Sun
The windows are double-glazed in timber frame and the heating system is oil-fired.
One of the pandies stirred, and pulled himself up on one knee; Wheeler, his arm still round the babu, whipped up his revolver and fired, and the pandy flopped back in the dust. Fiancée
He stumbled into the open exit hole and fired a warning shot into the air. Times, Sunday Times
Officer Humphrey fired the last shot from the magnum.
Yes, indeed, guns are fired before leaving the factory and a rust inhibitor is often applied to the exterior and the bore after testfire. Dirty guns sold as new
The young man levelled his rifle again and fired.
These efforts actually backfired, and one lower-level State Department official was cashiered.
He steadied his rifle on the wall and fired.
While the wingman was discharging his bombload, he heard a missile warning, but had no knowledge that a missile had been fired. Keller, Jack E.
The empty shell casing from a round fired over Michael's body before it was repatriated is positioned close by. 'My son was shot by a British sniper, now all I want is the truth'
The settlement stemmed from a complaint filed in July by Minneapolis barista Erik Forman who claimed he was fired for encouraging workers to join the Industrial Workers of the World union. IBTimes.com RSS Feed - Politics & Policy
From an apparently unthreatening position, 30 yards out on the left, he spotted a gap and promptly fired the ball into the top left corner of the goal.
During the fracas, a single gun shot was fired leaving a 24-year-old man wounded..
Prior to this, the village relied on oil-fired heating, and bills had become unaffordable. Times, Sunday Times
Reach the office of the president and the associate said that any employee which oks an early upgrade will be fired. One Man’s Answer to the iPhone 3G S Surcharge
some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it
Such attempts at manipulating the news have already backfired in the eyes of the public.
These are then fired in kilns and collected or posted out the following day.
The cars fired up and drove in single file through the last checkpoint. The Tribes Triumphant
Like the TNT, Winchester's 34 gr. bullet expands with explosive effect, breaking into almost sand-sized particles when fired into tissue simulants such as ballistic gelatin or even water.
He pulled out his rifle and fired three shots .
Cutting to the Chase - film reviews and news from Oklahoma firedoglake - where "bedlam is dreaming of rain March 2005
Yet the gambit may have backfired. Times, Sunday Times
Police and troops fired on and killed many demonstrators, but the crowds of protesters continued to grow. Times, Sunday Times
Encouraged by calls from former Vice President Al Gore and leading climate scientist James Hansen for civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal-fired power plants, thousands of individuals from across the United States converged on Washington, DC, on March 2, 2009, to protest the coal-burning Capitol Power Plant and to urge Congress to pass legislation to reduce carbon emissions. Earth Policy Institute: The End of an Era — Closing the Door on Building New Coal-fired Power Plants in America
One news agency photographer has already been fired for doctoring his photos in Lebanon!
Some artillery guns fired white phosphorous rounds that create a screen of fire that cannot be extinguished with water.
The plan may have backfired. Times, Sunday Times
Cheney never ran a political campaign, but when it came to the base he was very char, ismatic and fired them up. Choice Of Biden Signals Vigorous Debate With GOP On Foreign Policy, But There Are Risks
I have been to a gun club and I have fired off rounds for kicks.
My scurrilous expectations were fired up by a headline on a handout from the Commission.
Shots were being fired from the tower in every direction as we approached the grisly scene.
Dozens of protesters threw stones and firebombs and occasionally fired guns.
European Pressphoto Agency Pioneerwent after the high end of the market for plasma-display TVs, amove that has backfired in the recession. Pioneer Unplugs Its TV Business
People using acrylic paints can take away the finished article, but those who prefer water-based paints must wait a few days while they are glazed and fired in a kiln.
Sulphur dioxide is one of several pollutants that are released into the atmosphere by coal-fired power stations.
It was Allen who fired this rivalry with real passion.
The Gatling guns all fired simultaneously, tearing through the rear of the vehicle and into the trunk.
He entered the navy a midshipman in the era of cannon balls and oak hulls powered by sail, and retired as admiral of a fleet of steel, powered by steam, that fired huge shells thousands of yards.
They fired away with wild abandon, but luckily with little accuracy, and he was able to extricate himself.
I fired once and the bullet entered her temple at her hair line.
Reggae, soca and merengue will all get fired up,’ says the master percussionist, who is considered one of the more charismatic performers in the province.
A British ballistic missile submarine has fired torpedoes at an American destroyer - all for the sake of research.
Have they been fired, disciplined or reprimanded?
He fired and hit the outermost ring of the target.
The police fired into the air in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
Four Life Guards intervened when a Frenchman was assaulted by a mob believing that he, too, had intentionally fired a house. Exit the Actress
Air brakes sprang from the hull and the plasma retros fired a controlled burst.
Jetlag is hitting and the ‘shanti welcome’ chai that you have been given in an unfired terracotta cup tastes as though it might have been strained through the undies of the old fella who helped carry in your bags.
Too dependent on commercial, proprietary companies: Rather than create one system and beta-test it, the UK government depended on four companies to build the system, two of which quit or were fired for missing deadlines. Stephen Soumerai: Don't Repeat the UK's Electronic Health Records Failure
His actions led to him being fired last year for gross misconduct. The Sun
The police fired a volley of bullets over the heads of the crowd.
A car backfired somewhere, the CD now flew upwards at a fresh angle and speed.
Congressman Saunders fired the opening salvo during a heated debate on capital punishment.
These contain a core of metal surrounded by hard rubber - no doubt they could cause a lot of damage if fired at close range. Times, Sunday Times
The pod's retrorockets fired up, easing its fall but they were a little too slow in activating.
Her schemes backfired on herself,and she lost her boyfriend forever.
Hundreds of staff have been fired and various routes have been ditched to make the deal possible. The Sun
Debug into why the radio button grouping (callback) is not fired when the radio button is toggled from the code. Planet go-oo
Many of the cast-iron firedogs are reproduced from the original 16th to 18th Century patterns.
Fifty Spetsnaz men, dressed as Afghans, appeared and fired fusillades into the crowd. KARA KUSH
Three people were shot and injured as security forces fired into the air to disperse them. Times, Sunday Times
_spavin_, during the last hunting season, he was sold for a __machiner; but being since fired and turned out, he had come up all right, and was now, according to coachee's disinterested opinion, one of the best hunters in the kingdom. The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
Once when we were shopping, red tracer bullets were fired from the camp over the village.
Scooping a spoonful up, she bends her spoon, took aim and fired.
The problem is that the paper has fired this trainee journalist presumably due to public pressure and not, one assumes, some facts of his resume.
The New York watchdog said that five executives would be fired or resign as a result of the investigation. Times, Sunday Times
The video looks to show that one individual in the aggroup may have pointed a rifle toward the armored helicopter -- which given in turn going aiming its shanks at the mankind on the ground as it circled -- though there's no evidence the Iraqis fired a weapon. WN.com - Articles related to Tobacco Funds Shrink as Obesity Fight Intensifies
My sergeant fired and the suspect stopped raising his pistol and tossed it to the floor in front of him.
By then Saddam and eleven others had been "arraigned" on television in improvised proceedings of dubious meaning, which backfired politically when Saddam visibly summoned his powers of command and began to dominate the show. Ziad for the Defense
Easily fired at the idea of any injustice, and eager to redress the grievances of _the poor, _ Forester immediately concerted with these boys a scheme to deliver them from what he called the insolence of the dancing-master, and promised that he would compel him to go round by another street. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
White phosphorus is legal if fired as a battlefield smokescreen but it is banned in civilian areas, where its use could constitute a war crime. Times, Sunday Times
What they forgot to take into account, however, is that you do not hear the primary charge of a rifle being fired if you are more than 100 metres from it, you only hear the "thwack" or "crack" of the bullet passing overhead, followed by a MUTED primary charge thump (weapon firing). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
'S a bear, 's a bear, give him gowdy!" cried Colwell; and Uncle Walter laid his best eye on his old queen's-arm, and fired. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm
The pop was from an airgun, not a bullet, being fired.
He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox.
The battlecruisers' movements lost their grace, and they fired with far less precision.
However, he still was not content and he fired one more question at me.
The gunfight was started by a group of three militants who fired shots from the roof of a school near the Dutch camp, the police said.
Based on the unappealable decision of the executive committee, partners can be fired, demoted (as in this case), or have their pay lowered.
TALLAHASSEE | An investigator has been fired and four other Tallahassee police officers were suspended without pay for two weeks for their roles in a botched drug sting that led to the death of a young informant. News | LL | http://www.theledger.com
Those senators who appose him should be fired or retired or both. Congresswoman says some senators 'Neanderthals'
Most scientists now blame emissions of carbon from coal and oil-fired power stations for increasing global temperatures and causing ‘climate chaos’ in the form of winds, floods and storms.
However, he could not be fired because he was due for retirement.
She has just been fired as editor of the newspaper.
ACORN has over 700 employes and helps millions of low income people. if only 4 or 5 employes screw up, why punish the whole organization especialy when those employes have already been fired. Justice Dept. inspector general to launch limited ACORN investigation

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