gun down

verb

gunned down; gunning down; guns down

: to shoot (someone) with a gun

He was gunned down in the street.

Examples of gun down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Colom ended his campaign with an ad set at the Jackson home of Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was gunned down in 1963 in his own driveway, dying in front of his wife and children. — Bill Barrow, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026

Yeboah compared his 24-year-old brother’s death to the murder of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong, a Ghanaian immigrant living in the Bronx who was gunned down on his way to school. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026

Bauer was escorting bank tellers to their drive-in stations moments before he was gunned down. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026

The littlest victim, his two classmates and a teacher were gunned down by a former student Thursday in a classroom dedicated to children with special needs at Silver Rail Elementary School in the central Oregon city of Bend. — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for gun down

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• godown
• hometown