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Example sentences for: gunning

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Like how the religious right is now gunning for American Airlines' gay-rights policy.
A late-breaking story, which likely will dominate everybody's later editions, the gunning down of four Americans in Karachi, Pakistan this morning, leads at the early edition of the Washington Post available to "Today's Papers" prior to the column deadline.
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 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.
A Midwesterner, Will Hays, Jr., who is proud of his knowledge of post-Civil-War history, tells me the following origin of shot , as in shotglass , absent from “Gunning for the English Language”: