Words similar to rifle

Example sentences for: rifle

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

He had a pistol and a rifle but only used the latter.
That was the Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle, a lighter, smaller-bored, more accurate weapon than the Brown Bess.
According to Mark Shields ( NewsHour ), GOP leaders have always known Burton is a genuine nutter--remember that stunt with the rifle and the watermelon?
A tougher measure resembling last month's Senate legislation was defeated, despite ardent lobbying by President Clinton and Janet Reno . Everyone agrees it's a coup for the National Rifle Association, which had been taken for dead after Littleton.
A scythe rifle consisted of a stick of wood flattened on two sides like a paint paddle, then smeared with Le Page's glue and sprinkled liberally with the dried sand from a boiling spring.