toy rifle
Example Sentences
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“He’d carry around his toy rifle and wear his sister’s pink princess snow boots and he’d either be hunting or he was a Marine. Sometimes it would be with nothing on underneath, just a T-shirt.”
From Washington Times • Aug. 27, 2021
Standing atop a latrine, an Iraqi boy with a toy rifle shouted, “The Islamic State has invaded!”
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2019
Heather stood on a muddy stableyard at Mount Vernon on a bright March afternoon, excitedly gripping a toy rifle.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2017
When the officers found a deactivated revolver and a toy rifle left at the house by his six-year-old nephew, the firearms unit, “all blue lights and wire grills”, was called.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2017
The boys hovered nearby, shuffling their feet; the toy rifle was nowhere to be seen.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
