How to Use machine-gun in a Sentence
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The melody and Coriolanus’ calls to Lucy Gray come alive in the woods, prompting him to machine-gun the trees to stop the noise.
— EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023 -
But the men on the hill were ready and laid down suppressive machine-gun fire of their own.
— Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023 -
His team flew toward a farmhouse that held a machine-gun nest.
— Michael Wilson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023 -
The bullets were clipped together in long strands for rapid, machine-gun fire.
— Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Hundreds of thousands have fled to the south, leaving a silence broken only by the pop of machine-gun fire and the heavy thrum of Israeli tanks.
— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023 -
The darkness soon erupted with machine-gun fire, thudding bazookas and something else.
— David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023 -
Suddenly, a German fighter plane pounced on the lumbering Liberator and tore it in half with a burst of machine-gun fire.
— Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023 -
Getting hooked on Hearn’s machine-gun delivery led to the Lakers becoming his favorite team.
— Scott Howard-Cooper., Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024 -
All morning, fighting could be heard throughout the area, most of it machine-gun fire and shelling, as Israeli troops advancing deeper into Gaza clashed with Hamas fighters.
— Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024 -
At least two Soviet MiGs — accounts of how many exactly vary — appeared suddenly and strafed the Neptune with machine-gun fire that tore into the plane and set the left engine afire.
— Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Smedley, for whom a stretch of Interstate 4 between Orange and Seminole counties is named, died in a one-man assault on an enemy machine-gun nest in Vietnam.
— Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023 -
Depending on drive mode and throttle position, the eight-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission can be machine-gun quick or comfortably relaxed.
— Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023 -
People were trapped in the open, incinerated, asphyxiated and strafed with machine-gun fire.
— Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024 -
The film’s fashion reputation preceded it; fans with temporary machine-gun tattoos mobbed the red carpet.
— Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2024 -
In Mexico, drug cartels have recently outfitted monster trucks with battering rams and machine-gun turrets to use in shootouts.
— Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023 -
Weber said modern inkjet printers with complicated, glitch-prone software remind him of his father’s complex machine-gun printer.
— Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 14 July 2023 -
In this portrait of a remote and insular place, the machine-gun loquaciousness of both Eli and Naomi lays bare a spectacular self-confidence, but one that’s tinged with desperation and thrives on conflict of the high school melodrama sort.
— Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023 -
The planes relentlessy pounded anti-aircraft and machine-gun positions and rocket installations.
— Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023 -
The melody and Coriolanus’ calls to Lucy Gray come alive in the woods, prompting him to machine-gun the trees to stop the noise.
— EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023 -
But the men on the hill were ready and laid down suppressive machine-gun fire of their own.
— Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023 -
His team flew toward a farmhouse that held a machine-gun nest.
— Michael Wilson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023 -
The bullets were clipped together in long strands for rapid, machine-gun fire.
— Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Hundreds of thousands have fled to the south, leaving a silence broken only by the pop of machine-gun fire and the heavy thrum of Israeli tanks.
— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023 -
The darkness soon erupted with machine-gun fire, thudding bazookas and something else.
— David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023 -
Suddenly, a German fighter plane pounced on the lumbering Liberator and tore it in half with a burst of machine-gun fire.
— Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023 -
Getting hooked on Hearn’s machine-gun delivery led to the Lakers becoming his favorite team.
— Scott Howard-Cooper., Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024 -
All morning, fighting could be heard throughout the area, most of it machine-gun fire and shelling, as Israeli troops advancing deeper into Gaza clashed with Hamas fighters.
— Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024 -
At least two Soviet MiGs — accounts of how many exactly vary — appeared suddenly and strafed the Neptune with machine-gun fire that tore into the plane and set the left engine afire.
— Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Smedley, for whom a stretch of Interstate 4 between Orange and Seminole counties is named, died in a one-man assault on an enemy machine-gun nest in Vietnam.
— Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023 -
Depending on drive mode and throttle position, the eight-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission can be machine-gun quick or comfortably relaxed.
— Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023
- They heard the sound of machine-gun fire.
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The man left his machine gun in Ukraine and owed a large fine for losing it.
— Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024 -
The rifle uses heavy machine gun rounds and has a range of up to four miles.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022 -
He had been issued a machine gun and was headed to the war.
— Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022 -
Once all the Pogues are on the lifeboat, there's a tense moment where the boat stalls, and Rafe has the chance to shoot them with a machine gun.
— Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2021 -
The gun in question was the notorious Thompson machine gun, and the time was the 1920s.
— Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023 -
Two-Face's whole role is to barge into scenes with a machine gun.
— Darren Franich, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2022 -
The enemies have the machine gun while most of us are still hurling rocks.
— Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 17 July 2023 -
There’s even a dude in a panda suit firing a machine gun!
— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021 -
It is equipped with a 30 mm gun, a machine gun and/or a grenade launcher, and can travel up to 60 miles per hour.
— Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023 -
The logo depicts a big bee in a sailor cap holding a hammer, a wrench, and a machine gun.
— Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023 -
Another soldier in the unit, 57-year-old Zil, ripped a machine gun out of the hands of a Russian corpse.
— Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022 -
The sounds of machine gun fire punctuated the pair’s race to safety.
— Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023 -
The Merkava, the Namer and the Puma all have 7.62 caliber machine guns, Butterworth said.
— Cate Brown, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024 -
The Palestinians come in and gun down 20 civilians with a machine gun.
— Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021 -
In 2022, Russians came knocking on the door with their machine guns, looking for Nazis.
— Krista Stevens, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2023 -
Note the machine gun attached to one of the bicycles at lower right.
— Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024 -
Indeed, Browning wasn’t even the first to produce a rapid-fire machine gun.
— Mark Yost, WSJ, 14 May 2021 -
At age thirteen my father was awoken by machine gun fire in the streets of Madrid.
— Sebastian Junger, Time, 19 May 2021 -
After the four gunners before him had been shot in the face, Andrews was ordered to take over the machine gun.
— Fox News, 11 Nov. 2022 -
When placed on the back of a gun, the small, simple devices can change a handgun into a mini-machine gun.
— CBS News, 8 June 2022 -
His plane was once struck by fire from a Soviet-era heavy machine gun in Afghanistan.
— Jessica Donati, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022 -
The agents gave him a cardboard box containing an M-60 machine gun in three pieces.
— Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 31 July 2023 -
There’s a scene where Chris is on top of a train shooting machine guns at helicopters.
— Vulture, 20 June 2023 -
An hour later, Bernier was above deck on the topsail of the submarine with an M-60 machine gun.
— BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2021 -
Armed with four machine guns, five of the men climbed a hill and took positions overlooking the base and the antenna.
— Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023 -
The state banned bump stocks, which can turn an assault rifle into a machine gun.
— Brittany Wallman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2022 -
The occupant of the house was arrested and charged with possession of a machine gun.
— Scott Glover and Curt Devine, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022 -
Ivan imagined it from his perspective — big guys with machine guns sauntering down the street.
— Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024 -
They are also being charged with use, carry and discharge of firearms and machine gun, and possession of such firearms, in furtherance of a crime of violence, resulting in death.
— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
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