Example sentences for: colt

How can you use “colt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The NYT and USAT front the decision by Colt Manufacturing, a leading maker of handguns (and, the NYT points out in a nice historical touch, the inventor of the six-shooter), to abandon much of its retail handgun business.

  • The Colt shift was discovered by Newsweek , a fact mentioned in the second paragraph at USAT , in the eighth at the Times .

  • A common formula is a two-word phrase that opens with a Japanese company name and closes with a product name that is genuinely Western, as with Honda Ballade, Mitsubishi Colt , and Toyota Corolla , or that echoes such a word, as with Honda Acura (accurate?), Nissan Sentra (central, sentry?), and Nissan Micra (a feminization of micro ).

  • I know few of my leftie pals will be sad for the Colt gun company, which is laying off hundreds of its West Hartford, Conn., workers and trashing its consumer business because it's been savaged by lawsuits.


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