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firework
[ fahyuhr-wurk ]
noun
- Often fireworks. a combustible or explosive device for producing a striking display of light or a loud noise, used for signaling or as part of a celebration.
- fireworks,
- a pyrotechnic display.
- a display of violent temper or fierce activity.
- any spectacular display, especially of wit or of a technical feat by a musician or dancer.
firework
/ ˈfaɪəˌwɜːk /
noun
- a device, such as a Catherine wheel, Roman candle, or rocket, in which combustible materials are ignited and produce coloured flames, sparks, and smoke, sometimes accompanied by bangs
Example Sentences
On Friday, July 4, 1788—a dozen years since the Declaration of Independence—the city celebrated the narrow ratification of the Constitution with parades, fireworks, and speeches.
The inside story of how Patrick Mahomes landed with the ChiefsThose fireworks could prove to be prologue.
When the House of Delegates opened both of those topics to preliminary debate on Thursday, though, death — not drugs — was the topic that provoked all the partisan fireworks.
I was expecting similar fireworks on Saturday morning when I stopped in for a hair cut.
Transporting fireworks to the National Mall is difficult even in ordinary circumstances.
The Firework siren also reveals that she once prayed to God for, uhh, a new chest.
The result is the biggest property bubble in history, which when it pops will sound like a thousand firework accidents.
Suffice it to say the whole thing went off sparkling like a firework.
The comparison to a bursting firework is inevitable but unworthy.
In all Boston there was no firework as wonderful as Sky-High's.
On this occasion she carried, besides, a little parachute, ballasted by a firework terminating in a ball with silver rain.
Dancing will be interrupted at 8.30, when everyone comes out to look at the firework display.
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