Example Sentences

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Talk about using it as ammo, I’m machine-gunning love.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2021

They put three past Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and Joe Allen’s late equaliser against Arsenal on Wednesday had Klopp machine-gunning his fists in celebration.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2016

When he pauses mid-strut to perform his signature move of machine-gunning the crowd with his 1962 guitar, he brings the house down.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2013

Biter, first of these American-made auxiliaries to be identified in the Atlantic action, began the battles by depth-charging and machine-gunning two submarines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of machine-gunning them, he brought his heel down hard on the ping-pong ball that came rolling toward him off the paddle of one of the two officers playing.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller