peashooter

Example Sentences

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By 1975, the Camaro’s strongest V-8 was a 155-horsepower peashooter.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2023

“You don’t take a peashooter to a gunfight,” Keatinge said, expressing his dismay with the sanctions announced so far.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2022

All you need for an amusing afternoon is a bush and a peashooter.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2017

Four-time champion Ian Ashmeade, from Haddenham in Cambridgeshire, said he had been training hard to regain the title of peashooter "supreme" which he lost to Rob Bresler, from Ely, last year.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2013

Hearing the normally brash pint-size peashooter so worried made me realize just how much trouble we were in.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia