silencer

Example Sentences

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One video showed a man dressed in a black ski mask and camouflage trousers, with a backpack across his chest, carrying a pistol with a silencer as he entered the Robinson Lopburi mall.

From Seattle Times

Prosecutors said the devices were silencers “masquerading” as solvent traps to circumvent the law’s registration requirements.

From Washington Post

After Joe Biden took office, Speed began making preparations for what he believed was imminent civil war and started stockpiling weapons, including the three silencers that were the subject of his Virginia trial.

From Washington Times

Sometimes, they say, the call for prayer is used as a silencer.

From Washington Post

Surely it was as undergraduates that Stanford’s law school silencers became what they are: expensively credentialed but negligibly educated brats.

From Washington Post