How to Use fire away in a Sentence

fire away

verb

• The wind was blowing from the south, keeping the fire away.
  — CBS News, 2 Sep. 2022
• Let the season play out, the Giants plead, and feel free to fire away.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
• Popovich wants Aldridge to fire away even more from beyond the arc this year.
  — Tom Orsborn, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020
• The Jazz are unafraid to fire away from deep, even early in the shot clock.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• But his assistants in the booth above told him to fire away.
  — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
• More than 200 firefighters were in the air and on the ground trying to keep the fire away from neighborhoods.
  — New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
• The solution might be to double-team the post from the wing, leaving shooters and daring the Aztecs to fire away.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Craig is that necessary glue guy while Ross has sixth man written all over him with the green light to fire away.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2023
• But much like in the first set, Medvedev kept firing away, finding enough crazy angles and lines to get control.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• Officials also said the front may switch the wind direction to the southwest, which would help push the fire away from villages.
  — Anchorage Daily News Staff and Wire Reports, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2022
• But Enfield encouraged him to shake off the misses, to keep firing away.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Fixed-wing aircraft dropped retardant on the vegetation backing up to the homes to keep the fire away.
  — Hannah Frystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
• On one first-quarter 3-pointer Martin had time to square up, look down to set his feet, and fire away with no resistance.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2023
• Zach Edey controlled the paint, Purdue fired away from behind the arc and IU staggered into halftime down 51-29.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2024
• But the thin strip of sandy dirt where bowlers fire away at batsmen — a rare feature at the city’s parks — is still visible to anyone in the know, and to old friends back for visits.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2022
• This season’s stronger, more confident Curry has to have license to fire away.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Nov. 2021
• Redshirt junior Andrew Jones danced in place and backed Cunningham off just enough to fire away and connect on a 3 to put Texas up nine points with 3:33 left.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 20 Dec. 2020
• Set up at your maximum casting distance, and fire away.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 26 Nov. 2020
• But the biggest focus is getting White to simply fire away with confidence.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Olli Määttä fired away, only to have his attempt blocked by Jesper Fast.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2024
• Nor is the real story what President Donald Trump would have the world believe, that Portland is a city under duress, one fire away from being burned to the ground.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 4 Aug. 2020
• As Minaj fired away on X, #Bigfoot became a trending topic.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2024
• Short of conjuring flames from your fingertips, there’s no faster or more efficient means to ignite and control fire away from home.
  — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2021
• This will get loaded into hundreds of syringes, ready to fire away into hungry flamingo mouths.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019
• Why would the Suns trade him for someone who is coming off an knee injury in the bubble and seems allergic to shooting 3s when analytics say fire away from deep.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2020
• The brain is wonderfully self-sustaining, even after many decades of firing away.
  — Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 1 June 2023
• The unfamiliarity of firing away in the endless air of an NFL stadium?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• And finally, with no alternatives remaining and the clock winding down, Garland was forced to simply fire away from 28 feet.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Dec. 2021
• But even as James continued to fire away off catch-and-shoots with two more threes and Bryce Cofield skied for some nice finishes in transition, the Traiblazers’ aggressiveness waned, dragging to a 58-38 lead at the end of the third quarter.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• Meanwhile, favorable winds and weather continued to push the state’s biggest fire away from several villages on the Yukon River.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2022

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024