Gatling gun

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Probably the construction of the rotating film in a camera came from the Gatling gun.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

The Gatling gun from the United States could fire three thousand bullets per minute.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Video from the engagement appears to show one drone engaged by an air defense system known as a C-RAM, which fires a six-barreled Gatling gun up to 75 rounds per second.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2022

The film was a smash, launching careers as if out of a Gatling gun – those of Sean Penn, Forest Whitaker, Nicolas Cage, the director Amy Heckerling, the writer Cameron Crowe.

From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2016

Governor Bradley again sent a company of State militia, with a Gatling gun, to Manchester where the trial was to be held.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace