six-shooter
Example Sentences
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Her John Wayne gallops stiff-backed on an elongated red carousel pony, a silver six-shooter held high.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022
Legends of pistol-packing preachers who trekked through the West with, as one of them said, “Bible in pocket, gun in hand” permanently joined evangelism to the six-shooter in some corners of the American imagination.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021
Writing credits aside, this is a trademark Clash smash, full of outlaw rebel posturing and laden with Headon’s six-shooter drum cracks.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020
He swiped to a photo of himself, at age seven or eight, wearing a homemade Superman cape, with a plastic six-shooter slung low around his waist.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019
Perhaps he preferred a stylish single-shot to blazing away with a six-shooter.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
