Example sentences for: gun

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

  • She boldly marched into a bookstore and asked the salesclerk for a copy each of Hemingway's The Sun Come Up Again and Throw Away the Gun and Steinbeck's The Angry Grape . Is there a term for the errors that creep in while translating a passage back into the original tongue?

  • Meanwhile, Joe lurches from one unnerving mission to the next: a trip to Oxford to meet Logan's furious widow; a Kafkaesque visit to the local police station; a sinister expedition to buy a gun from some aging hippies.

  • Research indicates that liberal ("shall-issue" concealed carry gun permit laws, not left-wing ideology) firearms laws result in a reduction of crimes against persons.

  • Some may see a latent liberalism (in today's sense) in USA Today 's editorial line: its espousal of gun control or publicly financed elections (to name to editorial positions taken by the paper in recent weeks).

  • go off half cocked Muzzleloaders, then as now, had a half cock, or safety position, for a gun's hammer that partially back-locked the trigger mechanism so that the weapon could not be fired.


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