How to Use paintball in a Sentence

paintball

noun

• There’s wildlife on the grounds, paintball, a zip-line, slot machines and a spa.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2021
• Both groups were armed with bats, paintball guns and shields.
  — Oregonian/oregonlive Staff, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2021
• The gear: face masks, plastic weapons and paintball guns.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
• Laser Quest Phoenix Think of laser tag as paintball without the paint.
  — Wendy Killeen, azcentral, 24 May 2018
• Matty’s paintball gun discharged in the house and broke a pane of glass.
  — D. S. Waldman, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2024
• In 1980, Gaines and his friend Hayes Noel became co-creators of the game of paintball.
  — Shelly Haskins | [e-mail], al, 16 Feb. 2020
• Paramedics on the scene spotted green paint all over him and told Morales he’d been shot with a paintball.
  — Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• The officer then rushed over and shot him twice at point-blank range with the paintball gun, the suit says.
  — Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2021
• The opera was certainly less painful than the paintball trip for Ohams.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• At least one person was injured when they were hit in the face with a paintball.
  — Dakin Andone and Chandler Thornton, CNN, 16 Aug. 2020
• Play Laser Tag or Paintball Get geared up to play a fun game of laser tag or paintball!
  — Janece Maze, Country Living, 31 Aug. 2023
• Why not try a scuba diving class or go to a paintball venue?
  — Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
• Drive-by paintball attacks have surged across the U.S. in recent months.
  — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• He was found to be in possession of a paintball gun, an axe and a stun gun, police said.
  — oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2021
• Members of the group took his words to heart, training by playing paintball in the woods of Virginia.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
• Standard Nerf darts not back enough punch for you? Don't want to spend the money to upgrade all the way to messy paintball guns?
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2015
• He and the Wolverines saw the sights, gorged themselves on pizza and gelato, and played paintball (as one does in Rome, of course).
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
• Parking lots looked as if they had been attacked with paintballs full of dust!
  — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• None of the victims were struck by the paintballs, police said, but three of their vehicles were hit.
  — Kathleen McWilliams, courant.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Other items in the trunk included a tent, archery gear, a paintball gun, a bag of marbles, and two pairs of gloves.
  — Tracey Kaplan, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2017
• After the crash, the Times reports the driver jumped out of his truck holding a pellet gun and paintball gun.
  — Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 1 Nov. 2017
• The new 66-acre park off Canal Street features outdoor laser and archery tag, paintball, treasure hunts and more.
  — Daily Southtown, 31 May 2018
• The program has had lieutenants, armed with nonlethal paintball guns, shoot at birds in the morning.
  — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 20 Dec. 2019
• The officers, armed with paintball guns, ended up shooting both the suspect and the hostage.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• The buyer plans to host parties on site in the future as well as offer a paintball center.
  — Kathy Jumper, al, 9 Jan. 2022
• Members of the group then left the parking lot to assault other cars and shoot paintballs at passersby.
  — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2023
• Earlier that day, a Trump supporter had shot him in the face with a paintball gun; the flesh around his left eye was stained neon pink.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2020
• He was seated in the bed of a truck with a paintball gun when arrested, according to court records.
  — oregonlive, 5 May 2021
• The Nashville Scene also mentions eels, tasers, paintball guns, and whips.
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 23 Oct. 2019
• Armed with shiny chrome paintball guns and iPhones that double as high-tech binoculars, these resourceful kids hold their own.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024