Example Sentences

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St. John’s waited until it had secured a sponsor before paying $12,000 for a single-barreled Gatling gun from FX in Motion two seasons ago.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2014

The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight at the edge of a slash-pine grove.

From Time Magazine Archive

Below, Cattleman Virgil Torrance tightened his grip on a 12-gauge single-barreled shotgun.

From Time Magazine Archive

Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun.

From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

Continuing, Stephens told me how well he was prepared for emergencies; and he displayed two single-barreled, breech-loading Derringers.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various