How to Use pellet gun in a Sentence

pellet gun

noun
  • The complainant said the gun might have been a BB or pellet gun.
    Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The shooter and victim thought the gun was a pellet gun.
    Elizabeth Wolfe and Christina Walker, CNN, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The man said the weapon was a pellet gun and turned it over to officers.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The weapon turned out to be a BB or pellet gun, police said.
    oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2019
  • His hands are above his head, with one of them still clutching the pellet gun.
    Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
  • That’s when deputies learned the weapon was an airsoft pellet gun.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The aircraft footage shows the pellet gun and two knives lying near him.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Police say Healy told them the guns in the pictures were pellet guns.
    Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The 12-year-old had spent the day outside the center playing with a pellet gun.
    Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Rice at the time had spent the day outside the center playing with a pellet gun.
    Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Hall held a pellet gun pointed up and away from the police, and he was shot with his hands in the air.
    Kathryne Rubright, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Cruz, a hunter, also had knives, BB guns and pellet guns.
    Paula McMahon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • The gun in the picture turned out to be a pellet gun modeled after an AR-15.
    Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Detectives found a pellet gun in the 700 block of 3rd Avenue near the park.
    Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 10 June 2019
  • Police found two firearms in the classroom and say both were pellet guns.
    CBS News, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Police found a pellet gun or BB gun at the scene of at least two of his arrests.
    John Reinan, Star Tribune, 9 July 2021
  • At least one had a pepper pellet gun trained on the crowd below.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 2 June 2020
  • Tamir, 12, was playing with a pellet gun in a park in Cleveland, Ohio.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 June 2020
  • The man stopped again in the 8500 block of Westfield and got out of the car, allegedly threatening the two deputies with the pellet gun.
    Andres Picon, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Jan. 2021
  • Crawford had picked up the pellet gun and aimlessly walked around the store.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Police said some of the injuries appeared to have been caused by a pellet gun.
    Jonathan J. Cooper and Janie Har, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • Crawford picked up the pellet gun and aimlessly walked around the store.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The teen’s aunt and uncle ordered that the teen break the pellet guns, take them out of their home, and throw them away, police said.
    Jacob Carozza, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Phil taught Colt to ice fish, showed him the art of dirt bike maintenance, even showed him how to shoot a pellet gun.
    Robert.king@indystar.com, Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2014
  • As a fourth-grader, Nikolas Cruz would try to bloody them with his pellet gun.
    Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Deputies searched the home and found a mask and an Airsoft pellet gun that looks like an assault rifle.
    Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • It was later learned that the rifle Richards was holding was a BB or pellet gun.
    Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2021
  • In the 1960s, when things on the ninth floor were slow, officers working up there would shoot the birds out of a window with a pellet gun.
    Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Bussey said the man’s wound may have been caused by a BB or pellet gun or small-caliber ammunition, Bussey said.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2024
  • Officials Police later said the gun was a replica Glock 17 pellet gun.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 1 July 2024

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