gun - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • jump: It just feels like jumping the gun a bit to say no at this point.
  • mount: At present there are only two guns mounted upon the ramparts.
  • carry: In the main they like to carry guns muzzle up.

Preposition: in

  • turret: It has massive armaments: ten.50 inch machine guns in turrets in both its upper and lower fuselage.

Adjective modifier

  • loaded: In the hands of these ' leaders ' , the ' vanguard party ' is akin to a loaded gun.
  • submachine: Inheritance shoots out What we have here is a Thompson submachine gun.
  • naval: A naval gun for boat, ship or field.
  • 20mm: We went to view the phalanx in action as well as seeing the 20mm gun in action.
  • heavy: The allied side lacked heavy guns, which they could not have taken all the way from England.

Modifies a noun

  • emplacement: These gun emplacements were inside on two levels ( lower & upper gun floors ).
  • turret: This was a very exposed location, apart from the 8 gun turrets, the remaining guns had very little protective armor.
  • barrel: Built into every one were safety devices; the fuse could not be armed without having been fired from a gun barrel.
  • crime: The City of London police force boasts more than fourteen officers to gun crime events.

Noun used with modifier

  • antiaircraft: In the last attacks in 1998, I was at the soccer when the antiaircraft guns started shooting at US aircraft over us.
  • anti-tank: Mk 2D 40mm Vickers anti-tank guns ( two under the wing ).
  • machine: I saw police armed with machine guns last week in Brighton.
  • stun: You ask your friend to buy a large stash of mace, pepper spray and stun guns next time he goes to USA 29.
  • sub-machine: A policeman with a sub-machine gun is confronted by a hostile crowd.
  • Bren: On the ranges I managed to obtain good scoring, more so on the rifle, yet my favorite was still the bren gun.

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