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Some fling balloons filled with colored water from rooftops and others use squirt guns.—ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026 This includes replicas, so leave squirt guns, or anything resembling a firearm (pellet guns, airsoft guns, etc.), at home.—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026 Instead, the Warriors have walked into a shootout with a squirt gun.—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026 These weren’t your typical ineffective squirt guns from the dollar store that shot a weak jet of water a few inches in front of you.—Kara Nesvig, Parents, 24 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for squirt gun