shotgun
Example Sentences
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After the panicky Ray-Ray passes his guitar case to Sonny, out tumbles . . . a guitar, not the shotgun Sonny expected.
As I’m putting gas in the van, Hannah demands shotgun and forces Dalton to the back.
From Literature
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They are dressed as their favourite characters, with Conroy carrying an enormous replica shotgun, while his helmet was dumped on the floor nearby.
From BBC
Market hunters used shotguns, nets and traps to fill traincars with passenger pigeons—as well as robins, woodpeckers, blackbirds and orioles.
“You see a bit more of a shotgun style,” says Walt Hickey, a data specialist whose Numlock Awards is a rolling analysis of the race.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.