machine gun
Example Sentences
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"You start with a pistol, and then you get a shotgun, then you get a machine gun," Cregger explained.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Both Madis vehicles are equipped with a cannon and a smaller machine gun that, along with new types of ammunition, are becoming a growing part of antidrone operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
The Vahid Online Telegram channel shared two photographs of a black pickup truck with a machine gun mounted in the back in Tehran's Sadeghiyeh Square on the night of 8 January.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Bump stocks are replacement shoulder stocks that allow a semiautomatic gun to fire at nearly the rate of a machine gun.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
The wind wails impossibly louder, throwing debris against the door like a machine gun.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
