How to Use double-barreled in a Sentence

double-barreled

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• Then an older man steps out of a nearby house and walks toward him with a long, double-barreled gun.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 2024-03-06
• The walkout is the first double-barreled strike by actors and screenwriters in more than six decades.
  — Andrew Dalton, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-07-14
• The double-barreled joke played Vance's past comments noting that only women with families cared about the fate of the nation.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 2024-09-16
• The allspice dram in particular doesn’t mess around—even a little bit brings a double-barreled blast of spice to the drink—making this drink equally suited standing around an afternoon barbeque or sitting around an evening fireplace.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 2023-10-21
• Ruidoso, a scenic town of nearly 8,000 in southern New Mexico, is at the mercy of an enduring, double-barreled disaster.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 2024-07-21
• Low-income communities of color are particularly vulnerable to this double-barreled threat driven by climate change, according to the paper published Friday in the journal Science Advances.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 2024-02-05