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Example sentences for: gunning

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In response to Richard Lederer's “Gunning for the English Language” [XV, 1], Mr. Charles Kluth, Baltimore, points out that the difference between the coefficients of expansion of iron and brass—a mere 1/64th inch—would be insufficient to cause the (cannon) balls to be dislodged from a brass “monkey” and survive as a justification for the origin of cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey .
As further ammunition to support my bulletproof contention that our language is loaded with guns and cannons, I'll conclude by gunning for items that have the word gun in them.
Gunning to bring down the president after Bennett denounced her, Tripp entrapped Lewinsky.
The former adversaries have formed "a pact of mutually assured ambition," with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker.
According to the Enquirer Lee is in a single-person cell because, explains an "insider," "Nobody can beat up a goddess like Pamela Anderson without someone gunning for them."