carbine

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Recent Examples of carbine So, please, don't shoot my eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifle! Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024 This futuristic-looking, semiautomatic pistol calibre carbine required no regulated components and was fully DIY. Rajan Basra, WIRED, 5 July 2024 Winchester chambering was added in 1966 and the carbine model in ’67. Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 4 July 2024 As such, one of the silent auction items up for grabs that night was something that to a beer drinker is what an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle was to Ralphie. Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for carbine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carbine
Noun
  • Some of the rifle ammunition was tipped for maximum ballistic impact, authorities noted.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Military man jailed in NC Inside Manchester’s Pontiac rental, police found a rifle bought off the street, his roof-carving tools and a North Carolina road map.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Not like, say, Pittsburgh Penguins winger Bryan Rust, a six-time 20-goal scorer who has rode shotgun next to Sidney Crosby over the years and figures to be available for trade.
    Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But now players are bouncing parkour-style horizontally down corridors and scaling multiple stories for a close-range shotgun blast at whim.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lastly, players have ranged weapons such as the fast firing bow called the Hankyu, long ranged Yumi, bombs and Tangeshima, or musket.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The framers of the U.S. Constitution lived in an age of muskets and messengers, when war moved slowly and left time for Congress and the president to confer.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • School shootings are an obvious one, made explicitly so by Archer seeing a giant AK-47 with the number 217 in red floating above a house.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Prosecutors allege that these individuals committed acts of violence using weapons including AK-47s, grenades, and machine guns.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • Handguns can be modified through switches, effectively turning a handgun into a machine gun, meaning holding the trigger will fire bullets rapidly until the trigger is released by the shooter.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Two other 16-year-old boys were arrested for dangerous possession of a firearm and possession of a machine gun related to the shooting.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The flintlock coughed a lot of smoke, but Zutterman heard the 270-grain roundball smack the buck.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025

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“Carbine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbine. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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