(1) I could spot the enemy ships on the horizon, but only momentarily as they emerged from the screen of gunfire and smoke.(2) Yesterday there were sporadic exchanges of gunfire and a tank firing shells in the city.(3) Evacuation attempts were disrupted by gunfire and armed looters ruled the streets.(4) The gunfire was the latest of a series of attacks amid an underworld war for contracted volumes of drugs.(5) The Palestinian hospital sources said the man had been killed by random gunfire .(6) We paddled on in tense silence, waiting for more gunfire or perhaps the twang of a banjo, but they were not interested in us.(7) For the next two hours the sound of gunfire and explosions rang out.(8) Sporadic gunfire could be heard and only pockets of resistance remained, according to the US.(9) He woke suddenly to shouted commands, drumming horses' hoofbeats, gunfire and screaming.(10) With numb feet, aching limbs and the crack of gunfire ringing in our ears, a few hundred metres more seemed like a long way.(11) Every few hours a patrol of armoured vehicles clanks down empty streets and there is an occasional crackle of gunfire .(12) Two hundred workers were injured and several killed by police gunfire .(13) She said the deceased and herself were crossing the road when gunfire broke out suddenly as a car drove by.(14) Tens of thousands of people have flocked to the city, desperate to escape the mortar and gunfire .(15) As the trumpeter sounded the gallop, the mounted squadrons faced devastating volleys of gunfire .(16) A handful of poll centres were targets of mortar rounds and there were two reports of gunfire .