How to Use assault rifle in a Sentence

assault rifle

noun

• Their leader was a tall, thin black woman armed with an assault rifle and a determined look.
  — Chris Joyner, ajc, 11 June 2020
• Crouched on the stairway, another cop was pointing an assault rifle at her chest.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 24 July 2020
• The accompanying picture, shot from her desk, showed men in fatigues, with assault rifles, in the gallery above.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 2 May 2020
• Dolores’s outfits have progressed from frontier frocks to black sheaths and her weapons from Winchesters to assault rifles.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• In other photos that showed the scene in Seattle, Fox News digitally added an image of a man armed with an assault rifle.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 13 June 2020
• Following behind the assault was an armored tactical vehicle; from its open hatch, a trooper aimed an assault rifle with a silencer at people.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• Their pepper spray and tear gas is already packed, but each soldier is still carrying his assault rifle — combat troops poised for action poised just outside the nation's capital.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 6 June 2020
• But a half-dozen Peruvian soldiers quickly arrived, brandishing assault rifles, and began pushing them around.
  — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
• The assault rifle used by Carrillo was privately made, had no markings and had a silencer attached to the barrel of the weapon, authorities said.
  — NBC News, 16 June 2020
• In December 2016, a vigilante gunman showed up at the restaurant with an assault rifle and opened fire into a closet.
  — Sheera Frenkel, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2020
• However, Wife #2, played by Ashleigh Awusie, has made a career change, picking up an assault rifle and becoming a rebel warrior.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2020
• The sheriff said the assault rifle was used in the shooting.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
• One man held an assault rifle above his head, walked forward and placed a gun on the ground.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• One of the men strode up, raised an assault rifle and fired a few rounds toward the Israelis.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Trump was nicked in the ear after Crooks fired an AR-style assault rifle.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
• Paul had been shot in the head and chest with a shotgun and his mother was killed with an assault rifle.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 6 Aug. 2021
• One hand is thrown into the air in a Nazi salute, the other clutches an assault rifle.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• The video shows the Palestinian man grabbing the officer's assault rifle, which then drops to the ground.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Dec. 2022
• The state banned bump stocks, which can turn an assault rifle into a machine gun.
  — Brittany Wallman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• The bandits at the scene were armed with four AK-47-style assault rifles and an AR-15 assault rifle and had food to last for days.
  — José Ignacio Castañeda Perez, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2022
• Wilson said the amendment changed where the owner of an assault rifle could use it, not whether the person could own the gun.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Witness video shows one of the deputies aiming what looks like an assault rifle.
  — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2020
• One of the men, an assault rifle slung across his back, leaned into her open car window.
  — Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2020
• He is also alleged to have taught Kim A. how to use an assault rifle.
  — David Rising, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• One of the victims was killed with a shotgun and the other with an assault rifle, sources told The Island Packet.
  — Kc Baker, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2021
• No one is safe from the surprise carnage caused by assault rifles.
  — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• One of them, a babyface with a backward ball cap, raised an assault rifle and pointed it at him.
  — Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2020
• The visual is worth a watch as well, where an ex pulls up to Vaughn and Choppa’s estate and he’s met face-to-face with an assault rifle.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2024
• The Azeri turned up at the journalist’s Brooklyn home with an AK-47-style assault rifle, prosecutors say.
  — Renee Maltezou, Cassell Bryan-Low, Yannis Souliotis and Phil Stewart, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
• Instead, what voters are seeing is far more absurd: A video of former President Trump riding a cat while wielding an assault rifle.
  — Dan Merica, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024