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How to use gunner in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Gunner means an artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank. Example: “Veteran pilots “juked” their bombers to throw off the gunners' aim.”

More sentences with gunner

  • Veteran pilots “juked” their bombers to throw off the gunners' aim.2012, Dennis E. Showalter, Harold C. Deutsch, If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II, page 84. From the entry juke
  • Turning, they lost airspeed and showed their bellies to the hungry Navy gunners, and that was it.2011, James D. Hornfischer, “26: Suicide”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, retrieved 17…. From the entry kiss of death
  • The gunners no longer wore armplates while the lancers wore only breastplate and shoulder pieces.2011 11, Ruth Turner Wilcox, Five Centuries of American Costume, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry armplate
  • We went out into the streets of Zafaraniya, travelling in the usual two-Humvee convoy, complete with gunners.2003 November 24, The New Yorker. From the entry humvee
  • The next one was for the antitank gunner, whose name was Roland Weary.1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage…. From the entry weary
  • Disappointed gunners on other weapons are informed, "Just wait a little longer, boys; we're suckering them into 40-mm range."2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 24:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry sucker
  • Their aircraft had no belly gunners and were at the mercy of Luftwaffe fighters that attacked from below.2019 May 8, Aron Heller, “These Jewish World War II Veterans Would Be Legends, if People Knew Their Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry sortie
  • Air Force tail gunner and aviator.2018 April 8, Dan Moran, “Stories to tell about Richard Hyde, a Waukegan storyteller”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 13 Aug 2018. From the entry know where the bodies are buried
  • In order to reach the most advance lookout posts, I had to crawl to avoid being seen by machine gunners across the waters.1954 July, John C. Caldwell, “The Lost Christians of the China Coast”, in Christian Herald, volume 77, number 7, Christian Herald…. From the entry Liehyu
  • He fills thatcloud with HE but his quarry emerges from another nearby with a gesture of derision which the gunners below may imagine, though cannot see.2014, Martin Bowman, Lost Wings of WWI: Downed Airmen on the Western Front 1914-1918, →ISBN. From the entry archie
  • He was seen by an aeroplane, our Archie gunner and a whole division to crash in their lines just opposite our trenches, much jubilation and more congratulations.2013, Tyrrel M. Hawker, Hawker VC- The First RFC Ace: The Life of Major Lanoe Hawker VC DSO: 1890-1916., →ISBN. From the entry archie
  • The aircraft split up so as to attack from different, preselected bearings, thus confusing the gunners and making it difficult for the ship to comb torpedo tracks.2010, Jim Crossley, Bismarck: The Epic Chase. From the entry comb
  • The No. 1 gunner inserted the charge and shot into the muzzle, No. 2 (a Handlanger) rammed it home and cleared the barrel with the sponge after firing.2003, David Hollins, Austrian Napoleonic Artillery 1792–1815 (New Vanguard; 72), Oxford: Osprey Publishing, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry handlanger
  • Behind the lines, the gunners had the semiprotection of makeshift shelters - sheets of corrugated galvanized iron, bolted together and covered with layers of sandbags, sod, and netting.2003, Shelley McKellar, Surgical limits: the life of Gordon Murray, page 17. From the entry semiprotection
  • Also, not everyone was happy with our combat crew modifications: dropping copilots from lead crews; replacing bombardiers with togglers in our wing crews; eliminating our ball-turret gunners, etc.2001, James J. Mahoney, Brian H. Mahoney, Reluctant Witness, →ISBN. From the entry toggler
  • Not a hundred yards from where I sat were four field-guns—deadly four-inchers, the modem Krupp—sending shells into Hanyang as fast as the gunners were able to work.1912, Edwin J. Dingle, China’s Revolution 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War, London: T. Fisher Unwin, →OCLC…. From the entry Hanyang
  • Reports from the combat theaters highlighted the important role of the underappreciated bombardier well past the time when many gunners had become togglers, and operations had come to deemphasize accuracy.1999, Rebecca Hancock Cameron, Training to fly: military flight training, 1907-1945, page 490. From the entry toggler

Meaning of gunner

  1. noun An artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.
  2. noun A person who operates a gun.
  3. noun A riveter; someone who operates a rivet gun.

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Questions about gunner in a sentence

How do you use gunner in a sentence?
Gunner is used as a noun. For example: “Veteran pilots “juked” their bombers to throw off the gunners' aim.”
What is a short sentence with gunner?
“Air Force tail gunner and aviator.”
What does gunner mean?
Gunner means an artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.

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