six-shooter
Example Sentences
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Legends of pistol-packing preachers who trekked through the West with, as one of them said, “Bible in pocket, gun in hand” permanently joined evangelism to the six-shooter in some corners of the American imagination.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021
A retired gunfighter’s younger brother brings home a saloon singer and a six-shooter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2020
He swiped to a photo of himself, at age seven or eight, wearing a homemade Superman cape, with a plastic six-shooter slung low around his waist.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019
Just as not everyone in the US walks around clinking their boot spurs while twirling their six-shooter, it’s also not true that American stadiums don’t have their share of hooligans.
From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2017
His signature was not the smoking six-shooter; instead, like Sherlock Holmes, he relied upon the startling powers of reason and deduction, the ability to observe what the Watsons of the world merely saw.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
