GUN in a Sentence

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331 example sentences for GUN, such as:

1. He stooped and put down his gun.
2. I could see he was carrying a gun.
3. A guard zapped him with the stun gun.
4. The machine gun hailed over our heads.
5. She saw that he had a gun and backed away.

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 Meanings and Examples of GUN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
gun
 n.  a weapon from which bullets are fired through a metal tube
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I hain't said none since I was half the height o that gun.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  "Then I'll start the smiting," exclaimed Ferrier furiously, and would have rushed upstairs for his gun had not Lucy seized him by the arm and restrained him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
3  That night he sat up with his gun and kept watch and ward.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
4  They could see the lonely watcher fingering his gun, and peering down at them as if dissatisfied at their reply.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  Looking back, they could see the solitary watcher leaning upon his gun, and knew that they had passed the outlying post of the chosen people, and that freedom lay before them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
6  Having tethered the horses, and bade Lucy adieu, he threw his gun over his shoulder, and set out in search of whatever chance might throw in his way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
7  They were all carrying sticks, except Jones, who was marching ahead with a gun in his hands.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
8  Jones saw him coming, raised his gun and fired.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
9  Jones was hurled into a pile of dung and his gun flew out of his hands.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
10  She had taken to flight as soon as the gun went off.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
11  Mr. Jones's gun had been found lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of cartridges in the farmhouse.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
12  The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
13  The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
14  It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones's gun.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
15  It was also announced that the gun would be fired every year on Napoleon's birthday, as well as on the other two anniversaries.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
Example Sentence: (121 in 9 pages)
16  They threatened the shopkeeper with a gun.
17  Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the gun.
18  I could see he was carrying a gun.
19  She managed to snatch the gun from his hand.
20  She reloaded the gun as quickly as she could.
21  He stooped and put down his gun.
22  A guard zapped him with the stun gun.
23  She saw that he had a gun and backed away.
24  The timing of the gun was precisely synchronized with the turning of the plane's propeller.
25  The machine gun hailed over our heads.
26  He fired the gun from point-blank range.
27  I kept the gun aimed squarely at his eyes.
28  A man pointed a gun at them and pulled the trigger.
29  He used the gun in self-defence.
30  This gun is designed for one purposeā€”it's basically to kill people.