carbine
Example Sentences
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“What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine . . . and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Pusser indeed owned a lot of guns, including a .30 carbine caliber revolver that Mike Elam managed to procure over the course of his investigation.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2025
But any of them might point to Don Hogan Charles’ photo of him peering out of his window while holding an M1 carbine.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2024
It has been a huge success for the company, which has sold around 60,000 units of the 5.56 mm semi-automatic carbine, helping to lift its share price around 350% since the start of 2019.
From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2022
With only two revolvers and one carbine, they couldn’t hold off a patrol of Union cavalry for long.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
