pistol
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They didn’t locate any weapons, but they did find a pair of detached pistol magazines.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
After dropping the water pistol, the man was arrested.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Officials searched his vehicle and said they found a loaded pistol and magazine, in addition to a magazine they said he was carrying in his pocket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
During searches of Ahmadzai's home, officers claimed to have recovered and seized a replica pistol and a knife.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
He set Ralph down in front of an opening in a cardboard wall and said, “When Brad fires his cap pistol, go for the peanut butter.”
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
When they finally returned, Roebuck realized he was missing four pistols from his safe.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Lowe, the MP for Great Yarmouth, said his father's pistols had been taken away after the shooting, and that society in the UK needed "radical change" and to "release the individual".
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
Officials seized several pistols, rifles, shotguns, ammunition, tactical gear, as well as electronics, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
They ranged in age from sixteen to sixty and were carrying a motley collection of muskets and swords and pistols.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
We have counted eighteen hundred odd From Benavente hither, pistoled thus.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
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
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
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
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
Kearney looked from one to the other, fairly pistolling his scrutiny.
From Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie
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
"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
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
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