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shotgun

[shot-guhn] / ˈʃɒtˌgʌn /
















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.

From The Wall Street Journal

As I’m putting gas in the van, Hannah demands shotgun and forces Dalton to the back.

From Literature

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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 The Wall Street Journal