How to Use submachine gun in a Sentence

submachine gun

noun

• The last time the Army adopted a submachine gun was in 1943.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2018
• Less well-known is the fact that Johnson owns a Cold War-era submachine gun.
  — oregonlive, 31 May 2022
• Eells compared the weapon to an Uzi submachine gun, which can fire more rounds per minute than an AR-15.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• Players agree that the best close range weapon is the R-99 submachine gun, as well as the Peacekeeper.
  — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2019
• The howls and shrieks come from the basement where Toby wields a submachine gun to kill off rivals.
  — Betsy Morris, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• Shemel Mercurius, 16, was babysitting her 3-year-old cousin when Taariq Stephens came to her door and shot her three times with a submachine gun.
  — Essence.com, 12 Dec. 2017
• Police said a weapon, possibly a MAC-10 submachine gun, was recovered near the body of the 17-year-old.
  — CBS News, 19 June 2018
• As the five officers told it, Franklin overpowered three of them and gained control of a police submachine gun, wounding the two cops.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 7 Oct. 2021
• The boy admitted to searching online for a submachine gun in class, police said.
  — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• The police also seized 16 pistols, six rifles, a submachine gun, 12 grenades and a shotgun.
  — Fox News, 7 May 2021
• Torell was holding a plastic toy resembling a submachine gun when he was shot dead in August 2018.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2019
• Scores of police, some armed with submachine guns, ushered office workers and tourists out of the area packed with office buildings, banks, restaurants and bars.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2019
• Reuters reported that Tha Peng was assigned to a protest in the town of Khampat late last month and was instructed to use his submachine gun on protesters.
  — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2021
• Johnson and Drazan both support gun owner rights and Johnson is a firearms collector who owns a submachine gun.
  — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2022
• Earlier in the day, Finnish news agency STT said the country’s more than 7,000 police officers soon will have submachine guns.
  — Jan M. Olsen, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• The Army has awarded contracts to ten companies to submit submachine guns for the service to evaluate.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2018
• Scores of police, some armed with submachine guns, flooded the area, ushering office workers and tourists out of the area, which is packed with office buildings, banks, restaurants and bars.
  — chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2019
• The man, carrying a submachine gun, was a sergeant in the Royal Netherlands Army, the Dutch queen’s local representative.
  — oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
• As the birds plunged earthward to gulp water and feast on fatty globs bobbing in treatment ponds, a shadowy figure emerged from the corner of a building holding what looked to be a submachine gun.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• In the basement, police said Franklyn broke away from an officer, grabbed a police submachine gun and shot two officers in the legs, MPD 150 reported.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 30 May 2020
• The lawsuit posited that the two officers were wounded when the submachine gun went off by accident and that Franklin was killed not in self-defense but to cover up the fiasco.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 7 Oct. 2021
• Scores of police, some armed with submachine guns, rushed to the scene, ushering bemused office workers and tourists out of an area packed with office buildings, banks, restaurants and bars.
  — Danica Kirka, The Denver Post, 29 Nov. 2019
• But underneath that jacket was a loaded submachine gun, writes Christopher Klein for History.com.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2017
• The burglary was similar to a 2017 incident when a submachine gun and a bulletproof vest were stolen from a special agent’s vehicle in the Concord-Orinda-Lafayette area.
  — Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2021
• Police officers in riot gear and helmets prowl the lanes, some carrying submachine guns.
  — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2019
• The Israeli army has released images of protesters using weapons ranging from slingshots to submachine guns, and numerous attempts to breach the Israeli border with knives or bombs, to prove the contrary.
  — Hana Salah, latimes.com, 29 May 2018
• And in an October a far-right terrorist in Halle, Germany used a homemade submachine gun to kill two people after a failed attempt at a synagogue mass shooting.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 4 Nov. 2020
• Part 10: While followers talked about free love, the Rajneeshees armed themselves with assault weapons, grenade launchers and submachine guns, turning Rajneeshpuram into one of the most-heavily armed places in the state.
  — Grant Butler, OregonLive.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• The rifle was being carried by more experienced soldiers, while newer soldiers and conscripts were still issued the wartime PPSh submachine guns.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
• Authorities later seized more than 60 guns from his home, including five assault rifles and an Uzi submachine gun.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2017

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