gun down
phrasal 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
Both were gunned down, Good in her vehicle and Pretti on the street.
—
Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026
Thousands of New Yorkers, including a large contingent of nurses, gathered outside the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Manhattan for a vigil for Alex Pretti, the second person to be gunned down by federal agents amid the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
—Barry Williams, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
Reverence for all the others in recent—and distant—memory gunned down by the law, or, in one recent murder of the state’s DFL Speaker of the House of Representatives, Melissa Hortman and her husband, gunned down in their pajamas this past summer by someone impersonating the law.
—Ed Bok Lee, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Ragan is still facing the death penalty for gunning down 10-year-old Aaron Vu during a robbery of his parents’ nail salon in northwest Miami-Dade in 2013.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for gun down
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2026
Thousands of New Yorkers, including a large contingent of nurses, gathered outside the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Manhattan for a vigil for Alex Pretti, the second person to be gunned down by federal agents amid the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
—Barry Williams, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
Reverence for all the others in recent—and distant—memory gunned down by the law, or, in one recent murder of the state’s DFL Speaker of the House of Representatives, Melissa Hortman and her husband, gunned down in their pajamas this past summer by someone impersonating the law.
—Ed Bok Lee, Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Ragan is still facing the death penalty for gunning down 10-year-old Aaron Vu during a robbery of his parents’ nail salon in northwest Miami-Dade in 2013.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for gun down
Cite this Entry
“Gun down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun%20down. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
