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

The carbine red of two works by the Beirut-based artist Dala Nasser frame the back and a side wall.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

It looked like an army gun, a carbine I think, with a square magazine sticking out of the bottom.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien