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Example sentences for: rifle

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

In truth, though, flash in the pan refers to the occasional misfiring of the old flintlock muskets when the flash of the primer in the pan of the rifle failed to ignite the explosion of the charge.
In his essay on Prudence he remarks, ...what is more lonesome than the sound of a whetstone or mower's rifle when it is too late in the season to make hay.
The soldier in charge would command, after each firing, that the rank on the scaffold step down and be replaced by the rank that had just reloaded, thus alternating ranks and sustaining the rifle fire.
Finally, Willoughby, who was my mentor in matters of country language, explained the term scythe rifle.
Not an old Makah tradition: the .50-caliber rifle they will use in the hunt.