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tracer bullet

NOUN
  1. ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke

How To Use tracer bullet In A Sentence

  • One of the oldest uses for praseodymium is in the manufacture of misch metal, a pyrophoric metal (a metal that gives sparks when struck) used to make lighter flints and tracer bullets.
  • Once when we were shopping, red tracer bullets were fired from the camp over the village.
  • Flares and tracer bullets sliced across the night sky after the blasts.
  • Tracer bullets streaked through the sky.
  • The tracer bullets burned their way in darkness across the Tidal Basin into the White House.
  • The ball travelled like a tracer bullet and it was the shot of the day.
  • Each of his 15 shots sailed 100 yards out across the fairway before bending, like a tracer bullet, back across the driving range.
  • As we watched, a gunner fired again and red tracer bullets made their way slowly towards us across the river.
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