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Example sentences for: gunning

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My favorite expression from the language of guns (“Gunning for the English Language”) is lock, stock, and barrel . If someone gives you the lock, the stock, and the barrel, you have pretty much the entire musket.
But within hours of that alarmist item--which also suggested that Housing and Urban Development secretary Andrew Cuomo was gunning for Giuliani--Cuomo had dramatically seized control of $60 million in federal homeless money earmarked for New York, taking it away from the mayor.
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.
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.
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 .