chambered

Example Sentences

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Just ask the retired Air Force veteran whose upgraded weapon fired a bullet through his hand as he inspected it for a chambered round.

From Washington Post

His mother, however, was shot with an AR-15-style rifle chambered in a type of bullet called "Blackout 300."

From Salon

They found a loaded 9mm handgun in the apartment, but the pistol didn’t have any shots chambered at the time police inspected it.

From Washington Times

The last common ancestor of most cephalopods likely had a chambered, pearly shell, not unlike the iconic one worn by the nautilus, a shelled cephalopod that survives to this day.

From New York Times

The oldest chambered hearts have been discovered in fossils from Western Australia.

From Scientific American