How to Use gunman in a Sentence

gunman

noun

• They were shot by an unknown gunman.
• At a rally there in July, a gunman’s bullet grazed his ear.
  — Romy Varghese / Bloomberg, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
• Three people in the grocery store shooting died, including the gunman.
  — Ben Botkin, oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2023
• Gunfire erupted between the gunman and officers on scene.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2024
• Her husband was killed in an attack by Palestinian gunmen four years earlier.
  — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• The gunman killed himself before police breached his hotel room and left no explanation behind.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
• The documents include the most detailed accounting of the gunman’s gambling habits and shed new light on what was going on in his mind prior to the attack.
  — Zusha Elinson, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• Hamas gunmen attacked army bases, civilian communities and an all-night music festival about three miles from the Gaza border a year ago today.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2024
• The building where the gunman had climbed up, crawled across, and ultimately fired fatal shots, was completely obstructed from the view of the crowd by tractor trailers.
  — Olivia Rinaldi, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2024
• The gunman, identified as a 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
• His picture was taken then, an affidavit said, and the man in the photo, believed to be Moore, was wearing the same blue jacket as the alleged gunman in the shooting.
  — Zaeem Shaikh, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
• Police descibed the gunman as a tall man in his 30s but have not released a description of the the car, or identified a possible motive for the shooting.
  — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• One rally attendee was killed and two other attendees were wounded in that shooting, which ended when a Secret Service sniper killed the gunman.
  — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
• Five weeks ago, a 43-year old gunman entered Berkey Hall on Michigan State’s campus and fired shots that hit seven students killing two of them.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• Neither the name of the gunman or the victims have been release.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 June 2023
• New warning signs emerge in the background of the Maine gunman.
  — Richie Duchon, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• During the struggle, police said the gunman was shot in the face.
  — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• The other two culprits fled the scene in a silver SUV, and the gunman fled on foot.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• That car was fired on by gunmen in a truck, Maya said, and she was hit in both legs.
  — Bianna Golodryga, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
• The gunman opened fire from a high-rise suite at the Mandalay Bay casino.
  — Ken Ritter and Rio Yamat The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2023
• Minutes after the gunmen entered, the Stahl and her four guests were all shot in the head.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
• It is believed the gunman then turned the gun on himself.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
• The gunmen tried to beat down the door to the safe room before exiting the ship and making their way back to the shores of Yemen.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2023
• The gunman, John T. Earnest, was charged in state and federal court.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2023
• The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire from the roof of a building near where Trump was speaking.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024
• Survivors said the man pleaded with the gunmen not to enter the building.
  — Isabel Kershner Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• He was confronted by a gunman who fired shots and then fled the scene, Wade said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• The teenage boys stood in a crowd of people when they were shot by an unknown gunman.
  — Olivia Alexander, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• The idea being, there had to be a gunman in front of JFK if the bullet entered through his neck.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
• Ruiz was then sent to the nearby house where the gunman lived with his grandparents.
  — Lomi Kriel, ProPublica, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024