How to use firearm in a sentence

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• On board his boat were various firearms but not much food.From the entry on board
• In most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims.From the entry active shooter
• I have no occasion for firearms.From the entry occasion
• X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm.2024 July 23, Keith Broni, “X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm”, in Emojipedia Blog. From the entry fka
• In some countries, it causes more deaths than small firearms, and in others, more than illnesses.2024 July 8, Lotte Knudsen, quotee, “Road crashes: a silent killer”, in Delegation of the European Union to the UN and other international…. From the entry number one
• YouTube is awash in gun content, often referred to as “GunTube” by firearm enthusiasts.2023 May 16, “YouTube and Gun Content: A Dangerous Combination for Kids and Teens”, in Everytown Support Fund. From the entry bulletproof
• Anyway, no firearms when we got here.” He gestured to Kellen.2019 September 17, Christina Dodd, Strangers She Knows, HQN Books, →ISBN. From the entry groaty
• Many may feel aroused by viewing images of firearms or being in close contact with guns.2019 October 28, Kinkly.com, “Hoplophilia”, in Kinkly. From the entry hoplophilia
• Emerging crewmen hoisted boxes of ammo, firearms, radio sets and life vests on deck.2018 November 5, John J. Tkacik, Jr., “Stars and Stripes over Pratas Island”, in Taipei Times, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2020. From the entry Tungsha
• Although they did not carry firearms, titushky freely employed violence and coordinated their actions with the police.2015, Serhy Yekelchyk, The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, New York: Oxford University Press, page 109. From the entry titushky
• The end wasn't about money, nobody had an affair, and no firearms were involved.2007, Theresa Alan, Getting Married, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry Chinese water torture
• Lots of folks are hinky about removing ANY "safety" feature from a firearm.1995 June 23, Rosco Benson, “Re: HP Browning Mag safety, remove it?”, in rec.guns (Usenet). From the entry hinky
• A gent that fancies firearms to the point of academics — he's a gunster.1957, The Monthly Record, volume 61, numbers 3-63, page 10. From the entry gunster
• Firearms were taken from IDF personnel and passengers disabled at least one by removing the ammunition from it.2011 September, Álvaro Uribe, Joseph Ciechanover, and Süleyman Özdem Sanberk, “The Use of Force on the Mavi Marmara”, in Sir Geoffrey…. From the entry IDF
• Harris also found that 50% of the weapons used to threaten officers in the SbC incidents he studied were firearms.2010, Cyril H. Wecht, Henry C. Lee, D.P. van Blaricom, Mel Tucker, Investigation and Prevention of Officer-Involved Deaths, CRC Press…. From the entry SBC
• The car is a shooting brake, which was conceived to take gentlemen on the hunt with their firearms and dogs.2006 November 26, William Diem, “The Shooting Brake Makes a Comeback”, in New York Times. From the entry shooting brake
• The immense boogerball shot out of the nasal cannon and enveloped Jamison's entire hand and firearm, rendering them both useless.1998 October 30, CW, “A Halloween Story...”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet). From the entry boogerball
• Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:43:50 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), 40 Acres and a…. From the entry jacket
• As serious revolvermen all know, Dan Wesson guns are fine firearms and shoot as well as anything that you can find.1987, Wiley M. Clapp, “Double Data” (chapter 12), in Dean A. Grennell, Wiley M. Clapp, Gun Digest Book Of Handgun Reloading, Northbrook…. From the entry revolverman
• When it did not match their miscellaneous firearms, they were ingenious at reconverting the ammo to the weapon.1963, Margaret Bourke-White, chapter 28, in Portrait of Myself, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 338. From the entry reconvert
• Arsenic in the soup is fast supplanting firearms as a husbandicide among the more dashing members of the younger set.[1923 September 7, Madison Capital Times, volume 12, number 67, Madison, WI, page 16. From the entry husbandicide
• This specimen was of English parentage, was a professional burglar, a confirmed recidivist, and—since he habitually carried firearms—a potential homicide.1914, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 2, in The Uttermost Farthing. From the entry recidivist
• In New York, state lawmakers announced legislation on Monday that would require makers of ghost guns to have a gunsmith license and register the firearms.2018 July 30, Tiffany Hsu, Alan Feuer, “A Rush to Block Downloadable Plans for 3-D Printed Guns”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry gunsmith
• The 33 long guns and 37 handguns were seized during the project examining 69 cases where people failed to register or renew a firearm licence.2011 April 11, Nicole O'Reilly, “ACTION project nets 70 guns”, in Hamilton Spectator, Canada, retrieved 22 May 2011. From the entry long gun
• He approached people who were not in the criminal world, including his poker machine attendant, to acquire firearms or arrange hitmen for him.2008, Malcolm Brown, editor, Cold Blooded Murder: True Crimes That Rocked Australia, unnumbered page. From the entry poker machine
• It says the cousins, both United States citizens, sought training in firearms and countersurveillance from a person with an American military background.2007 February 22, Libby Sander, “2 Chicago Cousins Are Charged With Plotting Overseas Attacks”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry countersurveillance
• Roy Weatherby began his career in the firearms industry as a “wildcatter”, developing his revolutionary ideas about rifle cartridge performance and design.a. 2005, “Ammunition”, in Weatherby, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2005. From the entry wildcatter
• It did not give anyone permission to carry a firearm at any time other than when he was in a "well regulated militia".2003 May 15, David Simpson, “hoodlum mentality”, in alt.music.black-sabbath (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Dec 2025. From the entry sleevie
• As well, American murder rates are higher for handgun killings than for killings by other firearms and for killings by nonshooting methods.1992, Ronald Owen Hinch, Debates in Canadian society. From the entry nonshooting
• I own quite a few firearms.1991, Erika Taylor, The sun maiden, Scribner, →ISBN. From the entry gunnish
• The pronounced inlandness of the Caribou Eskimos is thus seen to have developed over two centuries, depending substantially on the acquisition of firearms.1975, Eugene Yuji Arima, A contextual study of the Caribou Eskimo kayak, page 221. From the entry inlandness
• But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick or certain poison, were completely unprocurable.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished…. From the entry unprocurable
• Due to its prevalence among farmers and those with no interest in firearms outside hunting, it has been unfairly typecast as a “fudd caliber” for years.2015 July 8, “Henry .30-30 H009 Rifle”, in Outdoor Hub. From the entry fudd
• The Israeli UZI submachine gun, one the most easily recognized examples of a blowback firearm, is well known for its simplicity, ease of manufacture, low maintenance, and utter reliability.2012, Robert E. Walker, Cartridges and Firearm Identification, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry blowback
• You remember, Harry, when the working men in America revolted against the Robots and smashed them up, and when the people gave the Robots firearms against the rebels.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden…. From the entry smash up
• Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) would be just another irritating office brown-noser, a prep school Sammy Glick, except that he too has a screw loose and a mystical rapport with firearms.2010 July 16, Alessandra Stanley, “Television: Back to Work for ‘Mad Men’”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jun 2016. From the entry have a screw loose
• The pro-gun majority in the House of Representatives moved Wednesday to compel the nation's capital to broaden the rights of its residents to buy and own firearms, including semi-automatic weapons.2008 September 17, “Bill in House forces capital to relax gun restrictions”, in The New York Times. From the entry semi-automatic

Meaning of firearm

1. noun A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.

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Questions about firearm in a sentence

How do you use firearm in a sentence?

Firearm is used as a noun. For example: “David was arrested for illegal possession of firearms.”

What is a short sentence with firearm?

“I have no occasion for firearms.”

What does firearm mean?

Firearm means a personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.