We jumped into the water with bullets whizzing past our ears.

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99bottles

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We jumped into the water with bullets whizzing past our ears.

That's a sentence I found on the Longman website. It exemplifies with (meaning #12).

What I want to ask is: Is it just me, or is with redundant/unnatural in that sentence?
 

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It's not unnatural, but you can manage without it, using a comma instead.
 
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