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    1. The zombies were all over him before he could grab for his gun


    2. He sold his gun and I haven’t once seen him drunk or drinking


    3. That gun … when did I last see it?


    4. It was his party piece, producing the gun almost as proof


    5. ‘I see - I think it would be just as well to let her see the gun in question, Inspector, so that she can identify it, don’t you?’ Mr Merrett suggested gently


    6. We searched the area and, as I said, we found the gun in the hedge bordering your property


    7. ‘Yes, that’s Jack’s gun


    8. Scar slowly raised his gun and pointed it above his shoulder, aiming it roughly at her face


    9. Silence looked down and saw the gun just at the last moment


    10. Scar inadvertently blocked their aim as he advanced on her with his gun

    11. Recovering quickly from the attack, Silence kicked the gun out of his hand


    12. ‘Your fingerprints match the ones on the gun, Mrs Wynell


    13. “This is why I hate facing people as weak as you,” Scar told her as he extended his hand and picked up his gun


    14. funny about that gun though


    15. yes, the gun used to belong to me


    16. it was totally the wrong sort of gun, of course, but nobody minded that


    17. 'I see, who had the gun then?' I asked, wondering if this is what Stephen wants


    18. If Liz was going to attack Joanna she would have done it in a fit of temper … not shot her in the back … if there is one thing about Liz, it is that she is always straight, if she was going to do something like that, she would just storm in there, point the gun and shoot


    19. ‘Mrs Wynell, you say that the gun was disabled …’


    20. Odd, I can’t see him as a family man … but Stephen says he was desperate for children … so terribly sad about the baby … who could shoot a pregnant woman? The thought makes me shiver suddenly; there’s someone out there who took a gun, loaded it and shot Joanna Sadler in the back deliberately and then tried to make it look as though Liz Wynell had done it

    21. ‘Joanna was shot with that old gun of Grandpa’s … you know, the one I gave to the drama group


    22. She told me that Henry has been really worried, desperately trying to remember when he last saw the gun, Stephen … they are pretty sure it was lent out with a load of other stuff for a themed party sometime back in March


    23. She said that Henry can’t remember seeing the gun again after that - though she did emphasise that he didn’t get round to going through the stuff until the weekend before Joanna was shot


    24. ‘He certainly has the skills and equipment needed to repair the gun


    25. But how did he get hold of the gun? Henry keeps all the props locked up … Dan would have had to ask for it, borrowed the key or something


    26. ‘That’s easy, Liz … a load of stuff was lent out for a themed party of some sort, and we know that Dan was involved in the collection … in fact Henry didn’t check over the stuff until quite recently which was when he noticed the gun was missing


    27. He lurches at the Trooper, pushes him and grabs his gun simultaneously, points it at his chest


    28. ‘Yes, it seems he had a phone call a few weeks ago asking about ammunition for a gun of that ilk


    29. Someone coldly and deliberately worked to repair that gun and hunted around for ammunition for it


    30. It was bad enough when we heard about the … the shooting … and then they found the gun in our hedge, but we could handle that … it’s him … he’s acting so strangely now … it’s scary

    31. He looks out the window, catches a glimpse of an unsmiling policeman with a machine gun cradled in his arms


    32. sticks his weapon in Russ’ stomach, Russ deftly steps aside, grabs the barrel of the gun, gives the soldier a firm knee in the groin, snatches away the weapon, as the soldier collapses in a heap on the highway


    33. Russ turns the gun on the soldier guarding John


    34. John snatches up the weapon, puts the soldier in a headlock simultaneously and points the gun at his head


    35. swivels his gun so that it’s pointing at the two soldiers guarding Ricci and Khalid


    36. Someone fires a machine gun into the air - RAT-A-TAT-TAT - and then two more militants follow suit in rapid succession


    37. He glances around at the soldiers, who give him a nod of respect, back away, and then at the interrogating officer, who hastily starts uncocks his weapon, starts to put his gun away


    38. Give me that gun


    39. A poorly-shaven GUARD in a sloppy uniform leans indolently against the gate with his machine gun cradled in his arms


    40. ‘It was there in the box … your gun

    41. Hamo mans the joystick, swiveling the gun on the hood this way and that


    42. Hamo flips the switch on the joystick, the machine gun on the hood disappears - POOF! -back into its housing


    43. Travis went rigid, his eyes pointing inwards to the gun barrel at his head


    44. Theo's gun shook in his hand


    45. brave enough a man to put a gun to his own head or to drive a knife into his own


    46. Tightest fuckin’ gun laws in the country and still this shit happens


    47. He was sitting on the ground in back of the Boston Monitor building, holding a gun to his head


    48. He stared at the gun and struggled to put his pants on without bending over


    49. I felt the gun barrel being pressed into the small of my back again


    50. Suddenly, he turns round and fires at them with an anesthetic laser gun














































    1. He gunned the V8 and spat stones against the crumbling dry stone wall that


    2. of the garden by the side gate, gunned his small but heavily


    3. we have him out manned and out gunned


    4. So who's to blame for this mess? If it weren't for Dillard, Roycen might have never gone undercover, and yet it was Blackburn's soldiers who gunned down Roycen and his wife


    5. One of the keynote speakers at the 1996 Republican Convention was a paraplegic, a decorated New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and permanently disabled as a result of his gunshot wounds


    6. ” He cut the wheel sharply and gunned into the other lane, ignoring a near collision with a car that swerved towards the sidewalk and braked with a squeal


    7. He gunned the engine to make it through, but the sand was, in fact, firm, offering excellent traction, and he crossed way too fast, shooting up the other bank high into the air


    8. gunned down in the city


    9. Moose gunned the gas


    10. ‖ Jack aggressively changed gears and gunned the BMW

    11. had not seen Nigel gunned down fired a few more shots


    12. The newly elected leader was gunned


    13. ” Sergeant Ender gunned the weapons carrier and bounced toward the pier, spraying muddy water out of the potholes as he drove


    14. They are willing to push the envelope and kill the young and elderly, but not the Lockerbie bomber, the guy who killed 77 people on an island retreat, or the man who gunned down many at a movie theatre in Colorado? Not only that, but as Albert Mohler recently pointed out on a podcast, there is even a growing liberal voice against the idea of life without parole


    15. As they flew in they had met no resistance at all from the security guards who were outnumbered and out gunned and who apparently did not see the point in trying to resist an obviously superior force


    16. The topic was the incident of an alleged drug addict and thief gunned down in the streets by unknown assailants


    17. Wisdom looked on as the scene went to a police press conference where the Mayor and the Police Commissioner were congratulating the police officers who apprehended the notorious shooters that gunned down a local hood legend


    18. ―Yeah, and Cali was gunned down in the street,‖ Tyson said


    19. Barry barely made it out of the car before I gunned the engine and fishtailed off the killing field


    20. The cop in the police car spilled coffee over his hand getting rid of it, fast, out of the window and gunned the motor of the pursuit vehicle into life

    21. He jumped in, gunned it to life and took off in a haze of burning tyre smoke, trying to get as much distance between himself and the service station as he could in the shortest possible time


    22. He knew he was well and truly out gunned


    23. Joseph lost two men from shrapnel wounds and fought like a tiger when he found some enemy soldiers who tried to surrender but Beck gunned them down rather than take any prisoners


    24. Oblivious of the freezing, slippery conditions, and the increasing volumes of snow as the highway's elevation increased, Travis gunned the rental car along Autoroute l5 heading into the Laurentians


    25. Miller gunned the little flying boat through a jungle of heavily forested islands and thick vegetation


    26. If they were as badly out gunned as she thought they were, they would need all help they could get


    27. “This is going to be messy!” Saul said as he gunned the car and aimed it for the chain link fence ahead of him


    28. The lucky ones are gunned down


    29. government until he and his wife were gunned down on the courthouse steps following his winning an acquittal for a teacher accused of promoting “unauthorized doctrines” in a comparative religion class


    30. ‘But someone was in that room, chief; and gunned him down

    31. more than a few people who were popping champagne corks when they heard that he’d been gunned down


    32. of the McCoy’s were gunned down in a gunfight


    33. After all of the men were gunned down, the women were


    34. One was gunned down, but the other managed to throw a bomb in the center of them


    35. One dove away, the others got up and were subsequently gunned down


    36. “And considering that I was gunned down in the cemetery, it didn’t occur to you that I might have wanted to know about that?”


    37. had no intention of being gunned down in cold blood


    38. And peace will be more important to the rich in the righteousness of their greedy cause, than the lives of the millions that will simply be gunned down, if rebellion takes place


    39. It was during this slow passage on Elm that he was gunned down


    40. Mitchell gunned the boats throttle, after reaching the end of the port, still lost in thought

    41. Only a very few Japanese soldiers managed to get close to the halftracks, but they could only throw a couple of grenades before being gunned down mercilessly


    42. They both waved as Tony gunned the motors and swept out of the bay, Shirl emptied the shotgun into the stack of driftwood and thoughtfully wandered up the track to the house


    43. � She gunned her car out of the parking lot an hour later, only taking time for a quick snack and a filling up for her Mitsubishi OUTLANDER


    44. The driver gunned his engine and raced down the bow ramp, closely followed by the tank assigned to support their IFV


    45. The engine was gunned expertly forward and reverse to keep the craft hard in, but not bumping the staging


    46. paralyzed in Carson City after being brutally gunned down by that


    47. The Americans likewise distanced themselves, even though their own planes had gunned down civilians fleeing the burning city the morning after the raid


    48. My partner was gunned down in his own home, and I just have to sit on the sidelines


    49. That man then charged him and another guard while shooting like a mad man before being gunned down


    50. Two of the Israelis, those nearest to the Mercedes, were gunned down in the first seconds of the fight, while the three remaining Mossad agents returned fire while running for cover













































    1. "What about the Squidy task force gunning for Hardway…


    2. Rain showers the water-hungry land, falling from gunning skies


    3. “Nothing? I saw on the news that the guy was killed by machine gunning,” Truman said, shifting gears


    4. “Given that two journalists have died, we are still looking into an angle that a serial killer is gunning down journalists and broadcasters


    5. "Then have those niggas gunning for us


    6. and that includes gunning down rodents, kitties and other vermin


    7. The B-26 light bombers, who still were a minute away from releasing their bombs, didn’t waste time arguing with her and turned back towards Pusan, gunning their piston engines for all their worth and hurriedly dropping their bombs while their commander started calling frantically the TACG in Taegu for additional fighter cover


    8. Good luck with Victoria’s gang gunning down the army


    9. None the less, Sheaar can’t afford the loss to his reputation and so he will have friends and acquaintances gunning for me


    10. eyes and his barrel came gunning for the tyrant

    11. Also, in South Africa recently the world-famous paralympian, Oscar Pistorius had been accused of gunning down his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in cold blood on Valentine’s Day


    12. and hollering at each other, gunning the motors, shifting


    13. Then said in the calm, modulated voice he had been using earlier: “For those of you not in the know, gunning down a federal agent is not the wisest thing you could have done


    14. Later, in Darkfever, Barrons kills O’Bannion to keep Mac safe from him and his henchmen, but it’s not the end of the O’Bannions gunning for Mac


    15. Though they had a few mishaps—Phil once taxied Super Man straight into a telephone pole—in aerial gunning, they nailed targets at a rate more than three times the squadron average


    16. They weren’t the Mafia; they hadn’t come gunning for him or his family


    17. Sergeant Gunning asked if I would see him as you were engaged, and I had a talk with him, but it's you that he wants to see


    18. If you move along the dark alleys past the buildings where the editing rooms on the top floors whisper and bray and roar and snack-chatter until two or three or four in the morning, you hear chariots rushing by in the air, or sand blowing across Beau Geste’s ghost-haunted desert, or traffic coursing the Champs-Elyseés all French horns and derogatory cries, or Niagara pouring itself down the studio towers into the film vaults, or Barney Oldfield, on his last run, gunning his racer around Indianapolis to the shout of faceless mobs, while further on as you walk in darkness someone lets loose the dogs of war and you hear Caesar’s wounds open like rosebuds in his cloak, or Churchill bulldogging the airwaves as the Hound bays over the moors and the night people keep working these shadowed hours because they prefer the company of Moviolas and flicker-moth screens and closeup lovers to the people stranded at noonday, stunned by reality outside the walls


    19. In spite of our proximity to the enemy our chief annoyance was occasional sniping, machine gunning, rifle grenades, and liquid fire, for the area had been given over mainly to mining and counter-mining


    1. He was pleased to have it … we need guns sometimes and artificial ones don’t look realistic enough …


    2. Even the walls weren’t safe as they blasted them with laser guns and searched the holes for any trace of the technological wonder that Ackers had clutched tightly in his hand


    3. ’ I said slowly, ‘He taught me how to do that sort of thing … not guns, of course …


    4. missiles and flak guns along the


    5. Nearby, there’s a cluster of anti-aircraft guns


    6. The two soldiers chatter fearfully and threateningly in Arabic, point their guns at Russ and John


    7. Two guards with machine guns stand in the shadows against the walls


    8. "I mean I just wish we brought more guns, that’s all


    9. Given the nature of my captivity and the simple fact of guns and knives and men with tattooed arms, I also realised that my anger had to be controlled


    10. You have to be firm, have to stick to your guns, but you have to show respect

    11. A single false move and those guns would carry out their terminal function without a moment of compassion


    12. Guns and men


    13. Guns in the hands of men without hope


    14. We tried legislation and now we’re trying guns


    15. “Is she going to war? Are they carrying guns with them


    16. In the haze of smoking guns,


    17. what with the guns


    18. orders, rags, boys and guns, mixed together,


    19. It took her telling them that I was past these trivial Scientology remedies and needed the "big guns" now for them to lay off


    20. For his part, the great politician broke off from his prepared text and brought his verbal guns to bear on the heckler, just as he had done with unfailing accuracy so many times before

    21. off from his prepared text and brought his verbal guns to bear on


    22. “My battery was a prime target for the enemy guns, of course, and


    23. “Almost all of their machine guns jammed or misfired after a few


    24. He is armed and dangerous, but the act of firing guns is one that he leaves to the boys


    25. to raise their guns, but Blair and Anastasia raised theirs and riddled Laurens with


    26. The guns aimed


    27. The soldiers looked at their guns in bewilderment


    28. broke into the armory and emptied every round of their guns


    29. than guns and knives


    30. His plan was brilliant—emptying the guns for insurance—it ran as smoothly as a

    31. front of radar guns and the eyes of coaches


    32. guns pointed toward the mound, a wall of people from the top of the bleachers that


    33. The five soldiers next to The Flower began to pull out their guns


    34. unsheathing two guns from their respective holsters


    35. guns outnumbered Johnson’s five to two, they were still the underdog


    36. guns, but with love, truth, and the power of God


    37. around their backs and shoulders that held their holstered guns


    38. a total of three guns later he was out of ammunition, but the weapons had served


    39. Carl pointed with the barrel of one of his guns toward the woods


    40. He was untidy, played music at strange hours, fired guns inside, made smelly experiments; in addition, there was an atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London

    41. Dad Perols said the grass was green and would not burn but Fred stuck to his guns and went to fetch his ride on mower with a capture unit attached whilst his neighbours tackled other jobs around the home


    42. But the dart guns came up as soon as she raised her voice and she lapsed into stony silence for an hour


    43. thing about sticking to the guns


    44. that almost ten policemen chased them with so many guns and


    45. The Justicars were carrying sub-machine guns and were putting heavy fire on the red car, hoping that one of their bullets would find its way to the golden thugs


    46. Some of the men were sitting and talking, while a few others were maintaining their guns


    47. He searched Odis for any guns or knives and found nothing


    48. "Then I guess we can just tell them that they're there to receive guns that we already paid for from Blackburn's men


    49. A few minutes of driving later, Griffiths pulled the car over and the two got out of it with guns drawn


    50. Tote, however, sticks to his guns and maintains that the results of his experiments speak for themselves













































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    Synonyms for "gun"

    gun accelerator accelerator pedal gas gas pedal throttle artillery heavy weapon ordnance grease gun gun for hire gunman gunslinger hired gun hit man hitman shooter torpedo triggerman

    "gun" definitions

    a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)


    large but transportable armament


    a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)


    a professional killer who uses a gun


    a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine


    a pedal that controls the throttle valve


    the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies


    shoot with a gun