pistol

During searches of Ahmadzai's home, officers claimed to have recovered and seized a replica pistol and a knife.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Toni McBride fashioned herself as a quick shot with a pistol in numerous videos, including some with celebrities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Co, the police spokesman, also revealed the other weapon used in the shooting, a .38 calibre pistol, was registered to a security agency in Cebu City.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

“It’s like trying to govern with a pistol pointed at your neck,” said former lawmaker Juan Contreras.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

When he woke in the morning the boy was not there and he sat up with the pistol in his hand and then stood and looked for him but he was not in sight.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Starmer, speaking to British reporters on his flight home, said the pistols were inscribed with the name of each leader and accompanied by a box of ammunition.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

He was carrying 743 rounds of ammunition and four handguns – two 9mm Browning semi-automatic pistols and two Smith & Wesson .357 magnum revolvers.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

Today, its pistols, shotguns and other weaponry are used by militaries and hobbyists around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026

The crew was armed with rifles and pistols.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

The movie was Red River, a western version of Mutiny on the Bounty with the range as the ocean and John Wayne as a pistoled and Stetsoned Captain Bligh.

From Time Magazine Archive

While scurrying water rats squeaked from the walls, pistoled their water, and ran for more.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Brown as a coffee-berry, rugged, pistoled, spurred, wary, indefeasible, I saw my old friend, Deputy-Marshal Buck Caperton, stumble, with jingling rowels, into a chair in the marshal's outer office.

From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry

They suddenly left the bridge, to disappear in the forecastle for a few moments, then to reappear—each man belted and pistoled, and one bringing an outfit to Forsythe on the bridge.

From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

We have counted eighteen hundred odd From Benavente hither, pistoled thus.

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

This pistoling of Colonel Washington by the British commander skimmed a little of the cream from our great and glorious victory.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde

That would ha’ been flat mutiny; and remember his name was on the ship’s books as first officer, and he might have pistolled us every one and had the law on his side.

From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward

No body of rough, uncouth, pistolled ruffians, such as Bret Harte depicts the miners, would have formed such a group of benevolent, far-reaching and comprehensive laws.

From A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country by Thomas Dykes Beasley

Now when Macaulay advances with his hectoring sentences and his rough pistolling ways, we feel all the time that his pulse is as steady as that of the most practised duellist who ever ate fire.

From Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay by John Morley

Even those who did not quarrel with his views sometimes, before Sir George Trevelyan's book, disliked and regretted what have been called his "pistolling ways"—the positive, hectoring "hold-your-tongue" sort of tone which dominated his productions.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury

"I doubt much whether it was quite wise of you, assuming that you expected to find me here, to have come without that pistolling retinue with which you provided yourself last time."

From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle

"What are you pistolling, Larry?" said a familiar voice close by his elbow, and he saw his master, accompanied by a handsome young man in a cloak.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Kearney looked from one to the other, fairly pistolling his scrutiny.

From Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie