The expression fireworks gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

The expression "fireworks" gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

He said a successful gunfighter could not let fear or anything else force him to shoot too soon and miss the target.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

That means early signs of economic recovery, like the way plants begin to shoot up from the ground as a sign of spring.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Ottoline Leyser from the University of York says that after a plant is pruned, all the inhibited shoot tips compete with each other to grow.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

"Try to shoot it myself, instead of go to the store to buy it.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

The study found that the main shoot grows the best of all not because of its position at the top of the plant, but mostly because it got there first.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

They saw the Union boats and began to shoot.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

"I remember when my daddy first gave me that gun, he told me that I should never point at anything in the house, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit them.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The group said there was a direct link between the murder and the anti-apartheid song called "Shoot the Boer."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

It has threatened war if Japan follows through on its vow to shoot down the rocket if it appears to threaten Japanese territory.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

African National Congress Youth Wing Leader Julius Malema said he would accept a request by the ANC leadership to stop singing,"Shoot the Boer."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

The vessel has the technological potential to shoot down a North Korean ballistic missile, something neither the United States nor Japan have ruled out doing.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

He is also believed to have been involved in a botched attempt to shoot down an Israeli charter jet leaving the Mombasa airport the same day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17