Thesaurus results for CARBINE

carbine

noun

Definition of carbine

as in rifle

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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, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Dec. 2025 Set in the 1940s in fictional Hohman, Indiana, young Ralphie Parker dreams of nothing more than an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot Range Model air rifle for Christmas. — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025 Elam has been researching the Pusser case for decades, and has provided information to the TBI, including a 2023 lead on a carbine that may have belonged to Pusser. — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Hale’s firearms included an AR-15 pistol, a semi-automatic AR pistol, a semi-automatic carbine rifle and a semi-automatic pistol. — John Miller, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for carbine

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Noun

After lighting the fire, Arrabaca also pulled out an airsoft rifle — a device commonly used in sports and recreation resembling a gun, but fires less lethal projectiles rather than bullets — and fired five to seven pellets, officials said.

— Brynn Gingras, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Tosh said authorities learned the suspect possessed an AR-15-style rifle and knives and had claimed to possess grenades.

— David Benda, USA Today, 18 July 2026

Definition of rifle

Noun

But aside from dispatching shotgun-toting police agents to keep an eye on them, Venezuelan authorities mostly ignored the protesters.

— John Otis, NPR, 16 July 2026
Popham murdered Elaine on November 1, 1979, after striking her from behind with frying pans, rendering her unconscious, and then shooting her in the head with Bunyard’s shotgun in the garage.

— Eleanor Jacobs, PEOPLE, 14 July 2026

Definition of shotgun

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Most of the statue was melted down and reformed into musket balls, and several of these are on display in the opening section of the show across from four large intact pieces of the original.

— Cat Dawson, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2026
Those artifacts include musket balls found in the floorboards years ago during a renovation of Hollis Hall, a dormitory that soldiers used during fighting.

— Ira Porter, Christian Science Monitor, 3 July 2026

Definition of musket

Noun

According to prosecutors, a group of gunmen later tracked Bowman to Los Angeles in 2022, then stalked and ambushed him at a gas station near the Beverly Center, firing at least 18 rounds from multiple weapons, including a machine gun.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026
In the hours that followed, a cart fixed with a rapid-fire machine gun advanced through town with impunity, like a primitive tank, firing at will on the largely un-armed Black residents.

— Lee Cowan, CBS News, 12 July 2026

Definition of machine gun

Noun

Both tanks mount 120-125 mm smoothbore cannons capable of engaging armored vehicles at long range.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
At least three states — Hawaii, Ohio and North Dakota — treat a smoothbore musket the same as an AK-47 or AR-15.

— Allen G. Breed, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026

Definition of smoothbore

Noun

On the roof, a three-year-old boy from Chile plays with a toy submachine gun, pointing it at anyone who comes within range.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.

— Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025

Definition of submachine gun

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