jet gun
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“But UFO detections have remained marginal for decades; they’ve just gone from being blurry shapes on film cameras to blurry shapes on the digital infrared sensors of fighter jet gun cameras. This, in spite of the fact that the world’s total imaging capacity has expanded by several orders of magnitude in the past 20 years.”
From Scientific American
Carrying a hand-held nitrogen jet gun and connected to Gemini by a 50-ft. umbilical cord, he eased his way to Agena 8.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last Yaa was handed up to the platform, where a technician stood poised with his jet gun.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gripping his jet gun, he slipped alone into space over the Pacific, just east of Hawaii.
From Time Magazine Archive
The powerful little jet gun had only my small mass to shove in free space, without gravity or friction.
From Project Gutenberg
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