guns
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Those aren’t bombs,” he said, “and certainly not guns. That’s demolition work. Germans. They’re probably blowing up bridges. It means they expect an attack but not that it’s here. It might not come for weeks.”
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It was true that we could often hear the distant rumble of their guns.
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Last spring, he posted a “video dissent” in a 2nd Amendment case in which he loaded several guns on camera.
From Los Angeles Times
“Dubai is trying to weather this storm by going all guns blazing, trying to maintain its reputational economy,” said Marc Owen Jones, associate professor of media analytics at Northwestern University in Qatar.
Activism isn’t just about wielding guns and throwing rocks but organizing online, in the classrooms and among households.
From Los Angeles Times
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