carbine

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Recent Examples of carbine So, please, don't shoot my eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifle! Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2023 These are the victims of the Nashville school shooting The AR-15 and 9 mm pistol caliber carbine appear to have 30-round magazines, according to experts who reviewed photos and video released by police. Ray Sanchez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023 The shooter was armed with a Hi-Point .45-caliber carbine long gun. Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023 Kim presented Putin with a carbine made by Korean craftsmen and other gifts, the Kremlin spokesman said. Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for carbine 
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Noun
  • The volunteer accomplices included Bugsy Siegel’s publicist, mobster Meyer Lansky, Pee-wee Herman’s dad Milton Rubenfeld, and Frank Sinatra. Many of the rifles and other arms came from Czechoslovakia, and were used by the Nazis.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Twelve rifles and pistols were recovered at his home when he was arrested Nov. 7 and police seized more than 15,000 bullets of various calibers, including the armor-piercing rounds.
    Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In the early morning hours of March 5, 2014, Derek stood outside in the snow near the garage and shot himself in the face with a 10-gauge shotgun.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2024
  • In the summer of 1989, Erik and Lyle Menendez burst into the den of their family’s Beverly Hills home armed with shotguns and opened fire, killing their mother and father.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Should that musket misfire, don’t look for the cleric.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The town's population grew in the 1820s as a result of the lead mining boom, where the mine became one of the most productive in the region, manufacturing the musket balls used in the Civil War, according to the city's website.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • These are people who woke up one Saturday morning and were soon dodging bullets and grenades, cradling the dead bodies of their husbands and daughters, kneeling before AK-47s and begging to be spared.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
  • It's believed two gunmen using two separate weapons killed the half-dozen hostages. AK-47 magazines and shell casings were found nearby, Israeli officials said.
    Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The indictment also charged him with one count of using, carrying and discharging firearms and a machine gun, as well as possession of such firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence resulting in death.
    Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Police arrested 25-year-old Jaquez Myrick of Montgomery and charged him with possession of a machine gun, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said in a news release.
    Marquise Francis, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • My first rifle had been a flintlock that had been given to me by an old friend, Ed Wesson, the gunsmith.
    Outdoor Life, Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?
    Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
Noun
  • Rock’s talent includes shooting down German plans with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Police also found 89 firearms, including handguns, submachine guns and AR-15-style rifles, as well as small explosive devices, large quantities of ammunition, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armor and $500,000 in Canadian, equivalent to roughly $360,000 in US dollars.
    Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.
    Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2018

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“Carbine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbine. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.

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