Example sentences for: machine-gun

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

  • They're on the new West Side Story recording where Salt-N-Pepa, Def Jef and others do "Gee, Officer Krupke," and, between choruses, add their own machine-gun interpolations, beginning with:

  • Actually, you won't find much of this kind of machine-gun improvisation in Not-Knowing , at least once past the bracing title essay, the most fully fleshed apologia Barthelme achieved, which barrels from Husserl to "Melancholy Baby" to the past-due bills on his desk in mock-peevish diatribe.

  • So a straightforward machine-gun massacre is out.

  • Gangsta rap shifted hip-hop's center of gravity from the East Coast to the West Coast, and supplanted Public Enemy's machine-gun attack with a cooler, jazzier style.

  • The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.


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