air gun

Example Sentences

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John Dingell was comfortable with firearms at an early age: When not blasting ducks with a shotgun, he was plinking rats with an air gun in the basement of the U.S.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2023

A former commander in Russia's Wagner mercenary group who is seeking asylum in Norway has pleaded guilty to being involved in a fight outside an Oslo bar and carrying an air gun in public.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2023

Medvedev will plead guilty to the charge of carrying an air gun, his lawyer Brynjulf Risnes said, and not guilty to some of the other charges, without specifying which.

From Reuters • Apr. 25, 2023

Speak loud, before the first air gun is fired.

From Washington Times • Dec. 12, 2018

A simple example of air pressure is the air gun, called in the seventeenth century ‘the wind-gun’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton