firecracker

Example Sentences

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A rare moment of high drama flares when a pregnant woman, Agata, played with firecracker fierceness by Anna Chlumsky, barrels down the basement stairs to accost Renia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

It’s possible the hotel was also happy to bid them farewell, given Hemingway’s conversion of their suite into an impromptu boxing ring with an indoor firecracker habit to boot.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

"Spencer was a firecracker, that's the best way to put it," Mitrofanov added.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

Mallen Kupferer is also a discovery, a firecracker who also conveys more nuanced teenage attitude, her Daisy bossing her repressed dad around, demanding he meet her on her level of explosive emotion.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2024

We children were forbidden to wander this coal shed area ever since the time Mundín and I had set off a firecracker just as the miniature general paraded by with his nursemaids.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez