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US
/ˈfaɪɝɹɪŋ, ˈfaɪɹɪŋ/
]
[ UK /fˈaɪəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /fˈaɪəɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the act of discharging a gun
- the act of setting something on fire
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the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy
hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes
they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire
they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire
How To Use firing In A Sentence
- 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
- Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century. New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
- A touch is all that is needed to lube delicate trigger mechanisms, firing pins, ejectors, extractors and springs.
- A collection of tattered men o'war and patched sloops is firing directly over the decks of the old admiral's flagship and into the area of HMS Brown.
- Police say the weapons were seized as it is suspected that they breach the 1982 Firearms Act, which prohibits the selling of readily convertible blank firing weapons.
- On set, instead of saying ‘Action’, he cued his actors by firing a gun.
- The police responded by firing rubber bullets, wooden pellets, and tear gas into the crowd.
- Think of it as a repeated uphill sprint requiring constant firing of the gluteal muscles. Times, Sunday Times
- When a person has any kind of injury - a broken shin, for example, or a sunburn - the pain system becomes hypersensitized, firing up in response to normally painless sensations induced by, for instance, walking or a gentle massage. Undefined
- In defiance of the ceasefire, rebel troops are again firing on the capital.