(n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.
(n.) A pyrotechnic exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
(2) As she was laid to rest fireworks illuminated the grey sky.
(3) Families and friends come together and fireworks displays and other celebrations are standard.
(4) Officers in riot gear at a number of points later drew batons and clashed with members of the crowd, hours after the protest began gathering in central London at around 6pm before massing near parliament, where fireworks were let off to cheers.
(5) Residents of five blocks in Nottingham, called City Heights, set off fireworks to celebrate wresting control of their development from Peverel after a long legal battle.
(6) Palestinians barricaded themselves inside al-Aqsa, throwing stones and fireworks at police entering the compound.
(7) The Tunisian delivery driver who killed 84 people when he drove a truck into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice on Thursday sent a text message just before the attack about his supply of weapons.
(8) 11.38am: Mark Deans , dealing manager at Moneycorp, believes we could see some fireworks when the results come out.
(9) He reeled off his speech with the eclat of a wet firework.
(10) While British parliamentarians shouldn't expect rhetorical fireworks, it's possible she will add a personal flavour to her speech, as when she spoke in front of both chambers of the US Congress in 2009.
(11) Proportionally, fireworks throw up far more in the way of dioxins.
(12) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
(13) And while he got in a few jabs at Jeb Bush and rolled his eyes at the obligatory protesters who shouted “we loved veterans, Trump loves war,” it didn’t have the trademark fireworks of a Trump rally.
(14) Golf balls, bottles, fireworks, umbrellas and even cast iron rain gutter was thrown at republicans marching along Royal Avenue.
(15) Rightwing radicals and racist protesters threw fireworks and bottles at police, injuring 31 of them.
(16) Minor burns due to fireworks which are treated in the Casualty Department have remained constant during the past ten years.
(17) Eva Zhong, the head of exports for a fireworks manufacturer in Hunan province, said that the government's fireworks warnings were misplaced.
(18) I came back out,” she said, “and I heard ‘boom!’ I thought it was fireworks, but everything was shaking, the buildings, my body was shaking.
(19) The firework weighed 460km and, when it was set off, spanned 800m in diameter.
(20) "I hid behind a tree, and all I saw were Morsi supporters throwing stones, or fireworks, or throwing teargas canisters."