Example Sentences

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The song is a biography of Captain Tony himself, the late Anthony Tarracino, a shrimper and a gambler and a gunrunner who ran for mayor of Key West and won.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2022

“I had not realized that the plane was there to this day,” said Stephen Braun, the co-author of a book on the gunrunner called “Merchant of Death.”

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2022

Wagers introduced readers to Hail Bristol, a gunrunner who inherited the thrown of the Indrana empire.

From The Verge • Oct. 1, 2018

As a loyalist gunrunner once told me, borrowing a few words from Simon and Garfunkel, this is still a place where “a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2018

Keep a tame gunrunner to work for 'em—that sounds like th' tricky sorta play they cotton to.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre