Example sentences for: gunning

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

  • Gunning for the English Language

  • The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer.

  • The gunning placements held “disappearing” guns, which could not be seen from land or sea.

  • 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 .

  • Gunning to bring down the president after Bennett denounced her, Tripp entrapped Lewinsky.


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