What is "firing away"

Usage examples of "firing away".

It was just a matter of getting the mortar pointing in the right direction, fiddling with the elevation screw, and firing away.

Crouched behind a thick marble post off to one side of this landing, firing away with a huge Browning automatic rifle, was his good friend, Catfish Johnson, along with a dozen of his men.

And still the F-16 was climbing directly at him, firing away with the nose cannon.

Hunter kept firing away trying to puncture the engine beyond the whirling prop enough times to make it stall.

For whatever reason, it was firing away at the island, lobbing shell after shell into the forest-shrouded spit of land, some incomprehensible action in an unknown war.

Within moments, all the American ships were firing away with their main batteries while the secondary batteries, with their shorter range, waited their turn.

Captain Morris had his marines all along the port side gangway firing away at everyone visible on the other ship's decks.

Men all over the ground and both starfighters were firing away at the ruins of the landskimmer.

He executed a third snap turn and broke out of it back to the left, locking fast on two enemy ships along the same line and firing away, blowing the first into bits and then pounding through to take a huge chunk off the second, sending it spinning away.

The CBS White House correspondent was on his feet firing away before the President's press secretary could acknowledge him.

Kawalsky and his team swarmed over the bulldozer like monkeys-heavily armed monkeys-firing away.

Like a struggling scorpion that refused to die, the few operational guns on Cumberland kept firing away at the invulnerable Virginia.