air gun
Example Sentences
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John Dingell was comfortable with firearms at an early age: When not blasting ducks with a shotgun, he was plinking rats with an air gun in the basement of the U.S.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
Medvedev will plead guilty to the charge of carrying an air gun, his lawyer Brynjulf Risnes said, and not guilty to some of the other charges, without specifying which.
From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2023
An air gun fires pellets using compressed air and is typically used for target shooting.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2023
He once saw Cruz running around the house with an air gun, his limbs flailing wildly - a move he demonstrated for the jury.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
A simple example of air pressure is the air gun, called in the seventeenth century ‘the wind-gun’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
