sawed-off

Example Sentences

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To disguise the swelling caused by hours of handshaking, Volk suggested Lincoln grasp a sawed-off broomstick.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Conservationists also debate what to do with the sawed-off rhino horns.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2025

Police said a search of Hale’s home turned up a sawed-off shotgun, a second shotgun and other unspecified evidence.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023

“In the days of Al Capone, Congress said back then that short-barreled rifles and sawed-off shotguns should be subjected to greater legal requirements than most other guns,” the director of the A.T.F.,

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023

As expressionless as the time she was a store mannequin, she sat in the wagon on a sawed-off chair, bracing herself with one hand on the driver’s plank and the other on the coffin box.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns