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How to use magnum in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Magnum means a bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle. Example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:bonum magnum.”

Examples of magnum by meaning

nounA handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually...

  • But, being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?1971, Harry Julian Fink et al., Dirty Harry, spoken by Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood)

More sentences with magnum

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bonum magnum.From the entry bonum magnum
  • As we all know, Joyce's magnum opi Ulysse and Finnegans Wake are commonly thought difficult and obscure.2008 January 17, "tcbevol...@yahoo.com", “The National Police Gazette”, in alt.fan.rawilson (Usenet), retrieved 21 Mar 2008. From the entry magnum opi
  • If the number of humans is infinite, you've got Shakespeare, politely cranking out his magnum opi.2006 December 7, "Agent Smith", “Re: Hidden Code in The Bells”, in rec.org.mensa (Usenet), retrieved 21 Mar 2008. From the entry magnum opi
  • “I see this book as my magnum opus,” she said.2023 April 20, Casey Schwartz, “Jean Twenge is ready to make you defend your generation again”, in The Washington Post. From the entry tome
  • Magnum Sal is a eurogame about exploration of a salt mine (second oldest still operating salt mine in the world).2012 August, ACD Distribution, page 18. From the entry eurogame
  • My magnum opus ran one-half of one consecutive night.1934 February, Rupert Hughes, “Love Song”, in H[arry] P[ayne] Burton, editor, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, volume…. From the entry oblivium
  • So I wrote an encyclopedic counterapologetics book to answer that question titled Why I Became an Atheist, which I consider my magnum opus.2016, John Loftus, Unapologetic: Why Philosophy of Religion Must End. From the entry counterapologetics
  • So let’s open us a magnum.1934 February, Rupert Hughes, “Love Song”, in H[arry] P[ayne] Burton, editor, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, volume…. From the entry oblivium
  • Magnum yawned at me, emitting a distinct graham crackery smell (he yawns when something is stuck in his teeth) and went back to grazing, content with his treat theft.1995 September 25, Sheryl White, “Attributing Human Vices to Horses”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Nov 2023. From the entry graham crackery

Meaning of magnum

  1. noun A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.
  2. noun A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
  3. noun A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.

Full definition of magnum

Questions about magnum in a sentence

How do you use magnum in a sentence?
Magnum is used as a noun. For example: “For quotations using this term, see Citations:bonum magnum.”
What is a short sentence with magnum?
“So let’s open us a magnum.”
What does magnum mean?
Magnum means a bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.

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