How to Use air rifle in a Sentence

air rifle

noun
  • Some kids with an air rifle put two holes in the sleigh and one in me.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The first medal of the Tokyo Games is at stake in the women's air rifle final (9:45 p.m. ET).
    NBC News, 23 July 2021
  • Yang Qian won the first gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics in women’s 10-meter air rifle.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • The air rifle is a close-range weapon (25 yards or less), and head shots are a requirement.
    Johnny Carrol Sain, Outdoor Life, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The weapon Richards was carrying that night turned out to be an air rifle.
    Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The air rifle found at the scene belongs to the residents and was kept in the backyard, Seiver said.
    David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Four of the best nine smallbore team scores and six of the best 11 air rifle team scores all season were recorded by UK.
    Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2020
  • One day in 1976, Evans started waving around an air rifle and a friend called the police.
    Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Kids and teens can perfect their aim with either air rifles or archery.
    Hallie Levine Sklar, Town & Country, 28 July 2017
  • Pitney also won a gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games during the women’s air rifle event.
    Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2022
  • The AirForce Texan is arguably the air rifle that started the big-bore airgun craze.
    Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Detectives searched his home and found an air rifle and air pistol.
    Wayne K. Roustan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • The clubs use a variety of firearms — from air rifles that shoot pellets to 9 mm pistols that fire bullets.
    Lisa Marie Pane, Fox News, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The clubs use a variety of firearms – from air rifles that shoot pellets to 9 mm pistols that fire bullets.
    Lisa Marie Pane, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2018
  • China’s Yang Qian, competing in the women’s 10-meter air rifle, also won the first gold medal of the games.
    Alyssa Hertel, USA TODAY, 24 July 2021
  • My Czech air rifle is still in my old bedroom, a full can of Crosman .177 pellets waiting.
    Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The answer was yes, and a search turned up a Ruger .22-caliber high-velocity air rifle.
    Frank Stanfield, USA TODAY, 13 July 2022
  • Anastasiia Galashina of Russia was one of the final two competitors in air rifle at the Tokyo Olympics.
    New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
  • China captured the first gold of the Games, in the women’s 10-meter air rifle, and scored its first fencing victory.
    New York Times, 29 July 2021
  • Tucked away next to his cot, Camargo keeps a pump-action air rifle to fend off rats and two machetes for assailants.
    Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022
  • The sport lost men's prone rifle, men's free pistol and men's double trap, all replaced by mixed team events in air rifle, air pistol and trap.
    Jenna Fryer, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021
  • Tucker qualified to compete in the air rifle event in 2020, but secured her spot in the smallbore finals in May.
    Siera Jones, The Courier-Journal, 6 July 2021
  • This makes for a semiauto air rifle with faster follow up shots than most of the competition, which is a boon for hunters and a blast for plinkers.
    Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Alison Weisz is the woman to beat in air rifle, and Samantha Simonton should make the skeet podium.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • That child would be 9-year-old Ralphie, whining and begging for the air rifle that everyone assures him will put his eye out.
    Patt Morrison, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • But air bows and big-bore air rifles are legal in Texas for taking exotics and non-game animals such as feral hogs.
    Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 26 May 2018
  • But big-bore air rifles are legal in Texas for taking non-game animals such as feral hogs and are used for that purpose.
    Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 6 May 2018
  • McBean, 33, was walking down the street, wearing earbuds, and had an air rifle propped on his shoulders, when Peraza ordered him from behind to drop it.
    Frances Robles, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Standing in a boat in suburban Fort Lauderdale, Chris Whitaker aimed a .25 caliber air rifle at a large green iguana on a canal bank and squeezed the trigger.
    David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The air rifle range and competition, run by Daniel Boone Conservation League, will be back, too.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2020

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