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Losing a friend side by side in a gunfight often meant pursuing vengeance in his memory, taking care not to squander his martyrdom.—Literary Hub, 3 July 2025 Police sources told Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV that the shooting involved a bounty hunter who was chasing someone, which led to a gunfight.—Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2025 Another episode that runs upwards of an hour brings together virtually everyone in the show’s history for an event that seems to promise chaos and destruction—say, a car driven through a house, a gunfight—but goes somewhere wholly unexpected.—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 June 2025 The state Supreme Court has ruled that a Waterbury man deserves a new trial because his jury wasn’t told to consider his right of self defense before convicting him of manslaughter for shooting to death a bystander during a gunfight on a city street.—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for gunfight
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