gunfight
Americannoun
noun
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Example Sentences
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Three days after the gunfight, the gates were wide open, and window drapes billowed in the breeze.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
He recalls meeting with Yeltsin and others at 3 a.m., just a few hours after the gunfight at Ostankino.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2023
They would have imagined a world where their team, at their brilliant best, could fire some shots that would trouble the Boks, but that old line about peashooters at a gunfight seemed appropriate.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2023
The extreme stress the body experiences in a gunfight slows critical thinking and motor skills, said Massad Ayoob, a police firearms trainer since the 1970s.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2023
There was a moment, just a moment, like the hesitation in a cheap Western movie just before the gunfight starts.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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