gunner

Example Sentences

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Dougie Shelley joined the Royal Navy at the age of 17, serving as a seaman gunner, and said earlier this year: "There is not many of us left."

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

"The others had half wings – one was an observer and the other a rear gunner."

From BBC • May 5, 2025

Eighth Air Force and served as a radio gunner on a B-17, the massive bomber known as the Flying Fortress.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Valery Shyrokov, 47, an infantryman and mortar gunner who volunteered in 2022 and served, among other places, in the bloody battle for Bakhmut, uses the word “disappointed,” but his manner suggests something far stronger.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2024

That’s what happened to pilot Sasha Yegorova, with her navigator, Nina Karaseva, and their tail gunner, Aleksandr Kudriavtsev.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein