blank cartridge

Example Sentences

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Step 2: shooting a blank cartridge.

From Washington Post

It emerged the revolver, loaded with a blank cartridge, had most likely retained the fragment from earlier filming.

From BBC

But when Mr. Massee pulled the trigger, the gunpowder in the blank cartridge ignited and fired a fragment of a bullet — probably part of a dummy shell that had been left in the gun’s barrel from an earlier scene — into Mr. Lee’s midsection.

From New York Times

Andrew: I see it as shooting oneself with a blank cartridge.

From Slate

Earlier media reports had said that the assailant had fired a blank cartridge gun.

From Los Angeles Times