How to Use air rifle in a Sentence

air rifle

noun

• Inoperable or antique firearms, air rifles and handguns are some of the weapons still legally allowed in the state.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 2 July 2024
• 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
• At the end of the day, the best air rifle is extremely subjective.
  — T. Logan Metesh, Field & Stream, 4 Oct. 2023
• 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, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 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, Fox News, 8 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
• When a mink was contained, it was shot with an air rifle, which Martin tells the Independent’s Danny Halpin is the most humane way to do it.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• 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
• So, please, don't shoot my eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifle!
  — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024