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verb

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Recent Examples of machine gun
Noun
Robinson is charged with one count of murder and one count of unlawful possession of a machine gun conversion device. Rachel Raposas, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025 In March, federal officials charged a pair of men in Cleveland in connection with an operation to sell around 90 rifles and a machine gun to undercover agents posing as cartel members. Michael Loria, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
Typically these include cargo carrying, casualty evacuation, mine laying, one-way attacks with explosive warheads, and direct combat using machine-gun turrets. David Hambling, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025 The machine-gun conversion devices look like small, innocuous plastic components. Michael Loria, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for machine gun
Recent Examples of Synonyms for machine gun
Noun
  • One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.
    Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 26 June 2024
  • Prosecutors said police found two weapons in the getaway car when the men were detained on a highway about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside Amsterdam, a Heckler and Koch machine pistol and, in a Louis Vuitton bag, a blank-firing pistol that had been modified to take 9-millimeter rounds.
    MIKE CORDER, ajc, 18 Oct. 2021
Verb
  • His tommy-gun dialogue, much of it laced with withering invective and punctuated with profanity, started a shift in the language of both theater and movies in this country.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 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
Verb
  • Westman had decorated the assault rifle and shotgun with hate speech in ways that aligned with the dark underbelly of alt-right meme culture that regularly disparages people of color, Jewish people, the LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.
    Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • After speeches by longtime colleagues (the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, presented him with a replica tommy gun), Garland spoke.
    Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Westman had decorated the assault rifle and shotgun with hate speech in ways that aligned with the dark underbelly of alt-right meme culture that regularly disparages people of color, Jewish people, the LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.
    Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Hatfield and 41-year-old David Vanover thought Gladwell had stole money from them and confronted him with an assault rifle outside a home on East Miami River Road, according to the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office.
    David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Acosta allowed it, and IMG destroyed them.
    Alec Lewis, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Later, Howard calls Matt and agrees to cut the sequence but also threatens to destroy him.
    Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a surreal moment in the movie where Archer has a dream and sees a giant assault weapon floating over a house.
    William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Felony possession of an assault weapon is punishable by up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine under California law.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2025

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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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