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How to use gunshot in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun

Gunshot means the discharging a firearm. Example: “Police said they found the driver deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot injuries.”

Examples of gunshot by meaning

nounThe discharging a firearm.

  • No gunshot wounds, Barricune observed, but marks of kicks, and couple that must have been made with a quirt.1949, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 92

nounThe firing of guns; gunfire.

  • they heard gunshot all around them
  • the sound of distant gunshot

More sentences with gunshot

  • Police said they found the driver deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot injuries.From the entry self-inflicted
  • He was killed by an accidental gunshot.From the entry accidental
  • The gunshot wound was excruciatingly painful.From the entry excruciatingly
  • Allentown is installing devices throughout Center City to detect gunshots, city officials said at news conference Tuesday.2024 January 31, Lindsay Weber, “Pa. city to install LPRs, gunshot detection devices that record video evidence”, in Police1, archived…. From the entry Allentown
  • Even the loud gunshot was a mislead to make them ask questions to common citizens.2021, Aren Bjorgman, Frozen Ashes. From the entry mislead
  • Thus, one finds individuals dead of a gunshot wound with potentially lethal levels of drugs.2015, Vincent J. M. DiMaio, Gunshot Wounds. From the entry of
  • Meanwhile, there were houses going up within gunshot of the caprock.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 424. From the entry caprock
  • Fifteen of those people had died of natural causes, the rest from gunshot wounds, including point-blank shots, or from shrapnel.2022 April 3, Carlotta Gall, Andrew E. Kramer, “In a Kyiv suburb,‘they shot everyone they saw’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry point-blank
  • Officers said they heard a gunshot from inside the residence.2017 August 20, “Taiwan News Quick Take”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2017, Taiwan News, page 3. From the entry kinning
  • In Beiping I heard the gunshots from Marco Polo Bridge, where the Chinese army fought the Japanese invaders.2005, Israel Epstein, History Should Not be Forgotten, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, page 7. From the entry Beiping
  • Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters.2024 August 1, Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, “Violence erupts as Nigerians protest hunger across the nation”, in CNN. From the entry six
  • Today, the sound of gunshots often prompts “active shooter” warnings on social media, whether or not the event fits the F.B.I.’s definition of the term.2021 May 5, Jacey Fortin, “What Does ‘Active Shooter’ Really Mean?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry active shooter
  • If the gun had been in Benji′s track pants or briefs there would be oil, dust and gunshot residue on the inside of the fabric.2010, Adam Shand, Big Shots: Inside Melbourne′s Gangland Wars, Revised edition, page 319. From the entry track pants
  • As the guests started bundling into their stormwear and trooping out into the snow, firecrackers and gunshots could be heard in the distance.1997, Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Tailed a Thief, Headline, →ISBN, page 55. From the entry stormwear
  • Suddenly Manakin twisted his torso, flung up his arms, and went, 'Shoosh!' It was so fine an imitation of a gunshot that everyone jumped.1995, Felix Roziner, translated by Michael Henry Heim, A Certain Finkelmeyer, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry shoosh
  • Archie and Clem know gunshots when they hear them and the sing of a bullet as it drills the windshield and exits the back glass of the truck.2007, Sam L. Bevard, Through the Back Gate. From the entry sing

Meaning of gunshot

  1. noun The discharging a firearm.
  2. noun The firing of guns; gunfire.
  3. noun The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun; the reach or range of a gun.

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Questions about gunshot in a sentence

How do you use gunshot in a sentence?
Gunshot is used as a noun. For example: “Police said they found the driver deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot injuries.”
What is a short sentence with gunshot?
“the sound of distant gunshot”
What does gunshot mean?
Gunshot means the discharging a firearm.

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