Example sentences for: firing

How can you use “firing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 3. Firing Squad

  • About your comment in the June 16 "Today's Papers" about the "inordinate" amount of coverage that Al Dunlap's firing got: This guy has become a corporate symbol--arrogant, cocky, boasting he can turn a company around in seven months when others need years, eschewing corporate jets for coach seats.

  • The NYT lead says that U.S. officials are certain Iran successfully conducted a firing of that medium-range missile, purchased from North Korea.

  • The papers report that the Nobel Prize in Medicine goes this year to three Americans who discovered that nitric oxide (not, the papers admonish, nitrous oxide, which is laughing gas), known best as an air pollutant, is also produced in the body, where it regulates blood pressure, nerve firing, and immune responses.

  • The top-front NYT story is basically a recap of the law-enforcement controversy plaguing Janet Reno, who pledged yesterday to find the truth behind the now-public FBI tapes that show agents firing combustible tear gas rounds at a building on the Waco compound.


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