Gatling gun

Example Sentences

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Probably the construction of the rotating film in a camera came from the Gatling gun.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

The Gatling gun from the United States could fire three thousand bullets per minute.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

But its armaments are put to shame by those of a rare dinoflagellate called Nematodinium, which has something like a Gatling gun inside it, able to fire 11 or more nematocysts.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2017

Delaney has a laid-back, singsong voice, so it comes as a surprise when he laughs, the ferocious ratatat of a Gatling gun.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2017

Just then the car that had caused all the trouble came honking toward them and slowed down with a series of explosions that sounded like the discharges of a Gatling gun.

From The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas by Aldridge, Janet