sound of gunfire

collocation in English

meaningsofsoundandgunfire

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sound
noun
uk
/saʊnd/us
/saʊnd/
something that you can hear or that can ...
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gunfire
noun[U]
uk
/ˈɡʌn.faɪər/us
/ˈɡʌn.faɪr/
the usually repeated shooting of one or ...
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(Definition ofsoundandgunfirefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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From about one o'clock this afternoon thesoundofgunfirecould be heard from that location.
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I am not one who runs away when there is thesoundofgunfire.
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From about 1 o'clock this afternoon, thesoundofgunfirecould be heard from that location.
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These words were followed by thesoundofgunfire.
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Again, he is woken by thesoundofgunfire.
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It is a crying shame to have the troops marching up to the barricades to thesoundofgunfireand then marching away again.
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The astronauts assess the possibility of taking command of these humans, but they are interrupted by thesoundofgunfire.
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Before she got the chance, everyone at the school awoke one morning to thesoundofgunfire.
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While walking through a large hallway with stairs leading up, there's thesoundofgunfireand the chandelier falls from above, almost hitting them.
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He was apprehensive about how his men, totally inexperienced in soldiery but now transformed into a motley army, would react at the firstsoundofgunfire.
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