revolver

Example Sentences

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The shots Gogarty fired from a revolver above the sleeping Joyce’s head sounded the prelude to Joyce’s exile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 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

She also had a stuffed kitten named John Grady Cole, the hero’s name in McCarthy’s “The Border Trilogy,” which follows three runaways who have a stolen Colt revolver.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

The reason law enforcement raised any questions about the revolver is because Hallie Biden, Beau’s widow, found it unloaded in Hunter’s truck on Oct.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024

The gun, an old revolver, had been my father’s and he had left it to me when he died.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela