How to Use firecracker in a Sentence

firecracker

noun

• The Post could not access footage of the moment when the firecracker was thrown inside the car.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
• But the tense third act builds like a firecracker with a fast-burning fuse.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
• The child heard what sounded like a firecracker, and the intruder fled down the stairs.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 15 May 2022
• Deeply anguished to learn of the loss of lives due to the blast in the firecracker factory in Batala.
  — Sugam Pokharel and Swati Gupta, CNN, 5 Sep. 2019
• The bus stop was at the end of the road, through woods so quiet the crunch of the frozen ground beneath my boots sounded like firecrackers.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• Fire and sparklers shot out from the ground, lasers weaved together across the ceiling and firecrackers boomed in the back of the building.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• Or perhaps it’s meant to evoke the burning fuse on a firecracker.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
• The problem with that is that this cocktail is a firecracker.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 Nov. 2021
• Bowie said firecrackers were set off at the party throughout the night.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2023
• That puts it in the same range as a firecracker, or a jet engine taking off some 330 feet away.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
• The main causes of the injuries were firecrackers, smoke bombs and mortar shells.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2024
• Tuesday evening, a girl threw tiny firecrackers, sometimes called bang snaps, to the pavement next to the skate park.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 27 June 2017
• The baritone booms of M-80s mix with the staccato snap of firecrackers.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• And speaking of nails, Ari Lennox firecracker, red nails.
  — Essence Beauty Editors, Essence, 14 Oct. 2023
• Strengths: The kids— 10 tots and a handful of older ones – are nonstop firecrackers.
  — Lee Williams | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive.com, 23 July 2019
• Legend has it that to scare away the beast, the villagers would put up red banners and explode firecrackers and bang drums.
  — Time, 16 Feb. 2018
• The firecracker shrimp ($12) is a pleaser; the lightly fried crustaceans are coated with a sweet and spicy sauce and served with a ball of sesame sticky rice.
  — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 3 May 2017
• Perhaps the Firecrackers had fired their last bullet of the tournament, but the same team did not take the field on Friday.
  — Andrew Turner, Daily Pilot, 4 Aug. 2017
• For the next two hours, the indoor range at the Everett Sportsman’s Club filled with pops, like muffled firecrackers.
  — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• Shelves are filled with mortars, fountains, firecrackers, smoke bombs, snakes and of course, sparklers.
  — The Kansas City Star and, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2024
• Anyone who’s been following the news for the past three years couldn’t help but be intrigued by this firecracker of a film.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
• Locals can then use firecrackers and other loud noises to drive the herd away.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2023
• Texas is firecracker-hot, so thoughts of back to school may be the furthest thing from your swimming-pool mindset right now.
  — star-telegram, 28 July 2017
• Campus police says fights broke out, the crowd threw objects and set off smoke bombs and firecrackers.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2018
• Get to know the firecracker politician, with a fine balance of pathos and humor throughout.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 13 May 2020
• The result is a movie that goes off like a firecracker and has as little lasting impact.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 July 2021
• Taste: Not quite a sherry bomb, more like a big tannic firecracker.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• One teenager tossed an M1000 — a firecracker known for its loud blast — straight at Kelly’s car.
  — Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 July 2018
• Common injury locations were the face and hand, the release said, stemming mostly from firecrackers, smoke bombs and mortar.
  — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 4 July 2024
• Despite the accidental antisemitism in their meet cute, Noah begins to fall for this pint-sized firecracker.
  — Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024