Example Sentences

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“There is no age or gender when it comes to serving your country,” said Kang, the former machine gunner.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2023

Viktor, a 23-year-old machine gunner and sharpshooter in the Third Separate Assault Brigade that has led the Ukrainian counter-offensive on Bakhmut's southern outskirts, had no doubt that the ruined city would be recaptured.

From Reuters • Sep. 22, 2023

Ferenc Münnich became prime minister of Hungary and machine gunner Mehmet Shehu was his counterpart in Albania for 27 years.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2020

A former machine gunner with the Royal Irish Regiment, he said he wanted to make a difference at Cheshire Constabulary.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2018

He learned where to place the green-faced lieutenant and the captain, and, high ground being priceless, to set the machine gunner on a book, a children’s dictionary.

From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli