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Example sentences for: rifle

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In 1974, soldiers carrying red carnations in their rifle barrels successfully deposed the government in a peaceful coup that came to be known as the “Carnation Revolution.”
From the halls of the Heritage Foundation to the shooting ranges of the National Rifle Association, you can hear the clang and the clatter of right-wing infighting.
Dole is hardly better than Clinton when it comes to the Bill of Rights, and there are lots of Republicans, like Bob Barr of Georgia, who decry only those incursions that perturb the National Rifle Association.
In the absence of a clear answer--of a clear anything--he raises his rifle and shoots.
On top of one, far away, an Iraqi waves a rifle and some kind of cloth.