gunfight
a battle between two or more people or groups armed with guns, especially a confrontation between two gunfighters using revolvers in the frontier days of the American West.
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How to use gunfight in a sentence
The gun play is more “Fallout” than “Call of Duty,” which is fine in AI gunfights but might yield some frustration for first-person shooter fans going head-to-head against a human-controlled Julianna.
He’d won the Police Combat Cross, the department’s second-highest honor, for his role in a gunfight in the Bronx.
Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight | by Sebastian Rotella and Kirsten Berg | July 22, 2021 | ProPublicaThis is a gunfight Even so, starting early, water, sunblock, and good intentions won’t cut it.
7 things you can do to actually prevent wrinkles | Sandra Gutierrez | July 13, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSometimes these incidents end with a view from behind the character’s eyeballs, or like this player who ended up in a gunfight trying to shoot while seeing the inside of their mouth.
When the gunfight ended, the bodies were handed over to the families.
This year, you stop bringing a pleasant, reasonable knife to a gunfight.
Crushing Christmas: How to Win Every Argument | Kelly Williams Brown | December 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMurray added: “Schneiderman is bringing a knife to a gunfight.”
Inside the Donald Trump–Eric Schneiderman TV Food Fight | Lloyd Grove | August 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThis weekend I posted a book club entry about Adam Winkler's important history of US gun law, gunfight.
No, the 2nd Amendment Does Not Authorize Armed Sedition | David Frum | March 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“Many of those Libyans died in the gunfight fighting off the attackers,” one of the officials said.
There was no 40-minute gunfight, he writes, and the SEALs were not fired at as they approached the compound.
SEALs Book on Raid to Kill Osama Contradicts Administration’s Version in Several Key Spots | The Daily Beast | August 29, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNatural target in a gunfight, and in a rough-and-tumble it gets them all tangled up.
Null-ABC | Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuireThe gunfight destroyed his faith in his ability to do it—or most of it, anyway.
The Draw | Jerome Bixby
British Dictionary definitions for gunfight
/ (ˈɡʌnˌfaɪt) /
mainly US a fight between persons using firearms
Derived forms of gunfight
- gunfighter, noun
- gunfighting, noun
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