Near the moon, the astronauts fired rockets to slow the spacecraft enough to put it into moon orbit.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

"Your forces," he wrote, "fired this morning on a civilian ship flying the flag of my government.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Two hours after Apollo Thirteen went around the moon, the astronauts fired the rocket for five minutes.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

You do not always know if a clay object will survive being fired at high temperatures.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

He fired. Then the man jumped from the box to the stage three meters below.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

He said it would even protect them from bullets fired by the white men's guns.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

As I stood watching him, a rifle fired in the distance, then another and another.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

Near the end of his third orbit, Glenn fired other rockets to slow his speed.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

We use here a low temperature fired clay, which is very easy to work with.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

Schirra fired a rocket exactly long enough to put his spacecraft in the same orbit.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

If someone has been fired from a job they might say, "My boss eighty-sixed me."

VOA: special.2010.01.08

One night,it fired its torpedoes at a much larger Union ship and sank it.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

A man ran up to President Garfield, pulled out a gun, and fired twice.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Then,at the far end of the Potomac River bridge, the first shots were fired.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

They fired cannons as the city of Washington was waking to a new day.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

Brown's son,Watson, and another man fired at a railroad guard who refused to halt.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

When he fired the gun, he shouted that he supported Roscoe Conkling's political machine.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Historians say thirty-two shots were fired in the space of about twenty-three seconds.

VOA: special.2010.02.15