What's the difference between bangs and firecracker?

Bangs


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
  • (2) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
  • (3) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
  • (4) Like the school friend who pops up on Facebook after 30 years, Barbie is banging on the door to come back into my life.
  • (5) They were banging on their shields and chasing these people up Regent Street.
  • (6) Eagles 17 - Cowboys 7 - 1:25 remaining 2nd quarter Bang bang!
  • (7) These changes will not arrive with an astronomical bang, of course, but will appear with stealth.
  • (8) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
  • (9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
  • (10) "They are wrong, we are bang on track, everything is on track," Howell said.
  • (11) The answer is not to be found at either financial extreme, but bang in the economic centre, where elections are won and lost.
  • (12) And the characters' creation of an avatar of a dead person based on their writings, in Jonze's film, is an idea that he's been banging on about for years.
  • (13) The man behind the Cillit Bang kitchen cleaner has shattered British records for executive pay after taking home more then £90m in cash and shares in one year.
  • (14) • Drinks about £12, Hornsgatan 82, Open Mon-Sat from 5pm, haktet.se Where to stay Facebook Twitter Pinterest HTL HTL HTL is a new and affordable boutique hotel and a perfect choice if location – it’s bang in the city centre – is more important to you than space.
  • (15) 5.38am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 11th Bang....just one bang.
  • (16) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
  • (17) The 6ft 5in striker Marc Janko bangs in the goals, often supplied by the all-Stuttgart right-sided combination of Florian Klein and Martin Harnik.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The trading floor of the London Stock Exchange as the Big Bang reforms took effect in 1986.
  • (19) He went with a bang not a whimper: two of his last contributions to the New Republic were a trenchant critique of the history of the six-day war by Michael Oren, now Israeli ambassador to Washington, and an evisceration of Koba the Dread, Martin Amis's purported book on Stalin.
  • (20) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.

Firecracker


Definition:

  • (n.) See Cracker., n., 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They had assumed the two explosions were firecrackers, only to be alarmed by the sudden number of policemen mobilising in the streets.
  • (2) Jérôme Boucer, who was engrossed in the gig nearer the stage, assumed the “pop, pop, pop” sound was part of the show – a firecracker perhaps.
  • (3) At first the shots sounded like firecrackers, said Agnieszka Kolek, curator of the Passion for Freedom arts festival in London, who was appearing on the panel with Shevchenko.
  • (4) The commonest cause was splashing of boiling fluids (42% of cases), followed by contact with red-hot firecracker particles (18%) and lit match heads (17%).
  • (5) Last but not least are the numerous and complex “traditional” mitigation strategies – beating drums, small fires and smoke screens, chasing elephants, firecrackers, intricate trip wires and alarms.
  • (6) We all live together, and they’ve got completely different qualities.” She says Phoenix is cool and sporty, seven-year-old Angel is a show-off “sassy pants”, and three-year-old Madison is a tough firecracker who has to fight for attention.
  • (7) He said he then heard what sounded like firecrackers and thought: “Surely they’re not shooting human beings”.
  • (8) After 23 years in the airforce he recognised the sound of gunfire, while most tourists thought it was firecrackers laid on as part of the entertainment and milled around confused or oblivious as the gunman drew in.
  • (9) The Arsenal support could afford to gloat in the closing stages of this firecracker, which ended with Wigan Athletic being burnt, and they surely knew the answer.
  • (10) "It sounded like a firecracker in a pillowcase," said Peter Smith, a traveller from the Netherlands.
  • (11) "At first I'd thought they were only firecrackers or something until I heard a police whistle.
  • (12) Patrick Wintour (@patrickwintour) The now traditional firecracker YouGov poll.
  • (13) Driving along the Galle road, a small band of Sinhalese Rajapaksa supporters lit firecrackers, one of the few celebrations of his victory.
  • (14) We heard a loud pop we thought was a firecracker,” Katie Domingue told the Louisiana Advertiser .
  • (15) Nonetheless, before we write off this particular pause, it marks a significant victory for this week's dry-sounding but firecrackingly page-turning report by the former Bishop of Oxford: Non-party Campaigning Ahead of Elections.
  • (16) Youths let off firecrackers and fire extinguishers and pushed over crowd control barriers.
  • (17) He was overpowered by passengers and crew members, who smelled smoke and heard what sounded like firecrackers, federal officials said.
  • (18) The official said Shahzad went back last Saturday and left the Pathfinder loaded with firecrackers, petrol and propane, potentially enough to create a fireball and kill people nearby including tourists and Broadway theatregoers.
  • (19) I watched as men fired large firecrackers horizontally into the crowd and they police just stood at the side of the square with their hands on their hips”.
  • (20) We thought it was firecrackers at first, but when the sound of explosions came closer we understood.

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