machine gun

Example Sentences

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Olsen: But I have to ask, what is your interpretation of the floating machine gun?

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

The Vahid Online Telegram channel shared two photographs of a black pickup truck with a machine gun mounted in the back in Tehran's Sadeghiyeh Square on the night of 8 January.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

He was Sylvester Stallone in the 1986 action movie “Cobra,” toting a machine gun.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The Taiwanese boats also have water cannon and a 20-millimetre static machine gun, but are careful to avoid a confrontation that "could lead to unimaginable consequences", Huang said.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

Moch pounded on the ironwood as hard and as fast as he could, the snap-snap- snap of it firing almost like a machine gun in the stern of the boat.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown