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:

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.
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.
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."
There'd be cops gunning down the mentally ill--you know, in accordance with police procedure and in a responsible way to save human life; is that my phone?"
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.