How to Use unfired in a Sentence

unfired

adjective
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  • Putin may very well decide this is one weapon best left unfired.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Jurors viewed photos of the casings and unfired bullets the detective found on the bed and floor at the scene that led him to this scenario.
    — Becky Jacobs, Post-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2018
  • There is a reason many used 29s come with a half-box of unfired ammunition.
    — Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Then, one of the duplicates jumps to another unfired origin, where it can be copied yet again.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2011
  • The barrel ejectors clear empty hulls, but will only lift unfired shells.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 June 2020
  • In 10-percent ordnance gelatin, this bullet will penetrate as deep as two feet, and the front portion will expand to twice the width of the unfired bullet.
    — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Four slug shell casings and an unfired buckshot round were found by a gas pump, while six 10mm shell casings were discovered where the Impala had been.
    — John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Stanton Hunter's unfired clay bowls, for instance, will collapse over the course of the show, spurred along by the water droplets deposited in them by visitors.
    — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Kannauj produces these, as well as the dramatic attar mitti, which evokes the scent of earth after a rainfall and is made with shards of unfired Ganges clay.
    — Travel, 4 Jan. 2021
  • They are gathered around a long table in the center of the luminescent factory, where a stack of unfired plates sit waiting to be adorned.
    — Julia Sherman, Vogue, 10 May 2018
  • Rice said police recovered four spent shell casings from the street, along with one bullet cartridge that was unfired and intact.
    — Ken Daley, NOLA.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • To create uniform controls for robot tests, Rober and his team made their own rocks out of unfired clay (the clay discs easily dried in the sun, and dissolved in water under 30 mins).
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2018
  • Many original houses—hundreds of years old, made of unfired clay brick, with upturned eaves—remain.
    — National Geographic, 14 Mar. 2019
  • The exhibition’s principal and most moving work consists of thousands of unfired clay beads that have been strung in a labyrinthine pattern from the ceiling.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2021
  • Texas A&M researchers who have a database on historic cannons were surprised to find an unfired cannonball in the 632-pound Spanish cannon.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Goodwill also gave police five different kinds of unfired ammunition, which had been turned in over time, the report said.
    — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Underscoring this relationship are two untitled works in unfired clay on the gallery floor: a gray spiral doubling back on itself in the center of the gallery, and a mass of red clay, shoved up against one side of the doorway.
    — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 19 May 2018
  • The blended wing body design basically looks like a traditional tube and wing aircraft if the plane were made out of unfired clay and someone stepped on it, smushing the fuselage and wing into a single, thick body.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2022
  • Investigators discovered the unfired bullets in the hotel room where Paddock launched the attack.
    — CBS News, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The building in Dakar is oriented so that nearby trees provide shade, and its thick walls—made of the type of unfired compressed-earth bricks Steinmeier tried his hand at making—insulate the interior from the hot Senegalese climate.
    — Jori Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
  • While its individual bits can’t be discerned, the delicate fabrication is the sum of many parts: It was made by dripping uncountable threadlike bits of unfired clay along fishing line.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In most of the incidents, the suspect used marbles or unfired bullets, said Kyle Andersen, a public information specialist for the sheriff’s office.
    — Erika Butler, baltimoresun.com, 7 June 2019
  • Fox News Digital also discovers an unfired round about 20 to 30 yards uphill from the crime scene, in a public area, and immediately alerts investigators.
    — Fox News, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Authorities said Haig’s fingerprints were found on unfired tracer and armor-piercing bullets in the high-rise hotel suite from which shooter Stephen Paddock rained gunfire into an open-air concert crowd before killing himself.
    — Ken Ritter, azcentral, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Multiple unfired cartridges were found inside the shelving units of the headboard, and additional ammunition was located inside a dresser.
    — Hannah Kirby, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Multiple unfired cartridges were found inside the shelving units of the headboard, and additional ammunition was located inside a dresser.
    — Hannah Kirby, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Haig’s fingerprints were found on unfired bullets in Paddock’s hotel suite, and ammunition also bore tool marks consistent with Haig’s reloading equipment, authorities said.
    — Washington Post, 30 June 2020
  • According to former Sheriff’s Office investigator Kristen King, six shell casings were recovered at the crime scene, along with one unfired round and an empty ammunition magazine.
    — al, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Magdolene Dykstra, a second-generation Egyptian Canadian, works in unfired clay to create sophisticated sculpture paintings.
    — Briana Miller, oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2021

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