Example sentences for: guns

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

  • Movie -- Men With Guns ;

  • , Daisy BB guns, and General Motors.

  • But the Times and the Daily Telegraph both underscored the political risks that Trimble, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is running by backing off from his party's traditional "no guns, no government" stand--a policy of refusing to share power with Adams' Sinn Fein Party in a devolved Northern Ireland parliament before the Irish Republican Army hands over any of its weapons.

  • It is not always easy to ascertain whether the underlying metaphor in such expressions is the bow and arrow or the gun and cannon (see Peter A. Douglas's “The Bows' Stratagem,” VERBATIM VI,3), but we can be fairly certain that the wad in shooting one's wad refers to the wad that held the powder and shot in position to be fired from early guns and that the pot in potshot signifies the dinner pot to be filled with an animal that was shot close up without any regard for rules.

  • The tech industry's dream candidate would combine Bill Bradley's views on abortion, gay rights, and guns with Steve Forbes' dedication to lower capital gains taxes.


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