revolver

Example Sentences

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Like Chekhov’s revolver, he’s a harbinger of bad things happening to humans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Pusser indeed owned a lot of guns, including a .30 carbine caliber revolver that Mike Elam managed to procure over the course of his investigation.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2025

Jurors also heard from the officers who handled the case, from the man who found the gun and from the store clerk who sold Hunter the revolver.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Hallie Biden, who is also the widow of the defendant's late brother, said she discovered the revolver amid piles of clothes and litter in the console of Hunter Biden's truck.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024

Bernabe Montoya, seated on his bed beside Carolina and peering curiously into the barrel of his service revolver one night, discovered that the barrel was permanently clogged with a brown, hardened, cementlike substance.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols