Example sentences for: rifles

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

  • The fort never fired a shot in anger, but you can hear a few rifles and cannons blast off for the Ceremonial Retreat on Wednesday and Saturday evenings in July and August.

  • Politicians who seemed not to know how to handle rifles like men.

  • "A leader of the Makah tribe, inspiring 600 men armed with pointed spears and high-powered rifles to tear into the 'feared enemy,' who was, at that moment, peacefully sorting baleen."

  • While Hillary Clinton preached against juvenile access to "bomb-making materiel" and decried "the arsenal of guns, rifles, and bombs that the two young men in Littleton were able to bring into their school," President Clinton earned another ovation by proposing to "require Brady background checks on anyone who wants to buy explosives."

  • Indian troops were trained to bite the cartridges before loading their rifles, but some were greased with animal fat and the Indians felt they were ingesting either fat from the cow, sacred to the Hindus, or lard from the pig, abomination to the Muslims.


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