Words similar to gunning
Example sentences for: gunning
How can you use “gunning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The gunning placements held “disappearing” guns, which could not be seen from land or sea.
Gunning to bring down the president after Bennett denounced her, Tripp entrapped Lewinsky.
Like how the religious right is now gunning for American Airlines' gay-rights policy.
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”:
This led to the association of rapid acceleration with “gunning,” and to give it the gun was soon extended to automobiles, speedboats, and objects and matters nonmechanical.