revolver

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Recent Examples of revolver Along Foreman’s flight path, police found a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol, both of which were used to fire at the victims. Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025 Hard work could never compete with a steam engine in pulling a train; decades of training in swordsmanship could never compete with a revolver. Radu Magdin, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025 The system features a 30mm x 173 KCE revolver gun and short-range surface-to-air missiles. Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025 New York City detectives searched Tamura’s locker at the Horseshoe casino Wednesday and found a tripod for his rifle, a box for a revolver that was found in his car in New York, and ammunition for both guns, the police department said. Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for revolver
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Noun
  • Federal agents executed a search warrant at her home in Virginia and found three 9mm pistols, including one inside a purse that also contained Perkins’ photo identification.
    KC Baker, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • My thoughts, instead of feeling like they were being released via machine gun, felt like they were launched from an old-timey pistol shot underwater, the propulsion forcibly slowed.
    P.E. Moskowitz September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.
    Brian Matthew Jordan, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
  • In 1976, after wrecking his Rolls-Royce in a drunk-driving accident, he was arrested, intoxicated, with a loaded derringer on the grounds of Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • And at Evergreen High School in Colorado, two students were wounded by a classmate wielding a handgun, who then fatally shot himself.
    John Feinblatt, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Hundreds of police responded to the shooting, which included a student allegedly wielding a handgun, Kelley said in a news briefing.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Its big selling feature is a revolver-like cylinder that spins and snicks along on precision bearings, just like the cylinder of a six-shooter.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 June 2025
  • Richard’s odds are lousier than Reacher’s were when Beck forced Reacher to play because this revolver is a five-shot model instead of a six-shooter.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Speaking on Fox & Friends, Patel said forensic teams identified Robinson's DNA on both a screwdriver and a towel wrapped around the firearm believed to have been used in the fatal shooting.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • One reason is that the availability of increasingly lethal firearms continues to grow dramatically.
    John J. Donohue, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Trumps otherwise basked in the royal limelight on Wednesday, visibly enjoying the pomp and ceremony, which included a royal gun salute, carriage procession through Windsor and guard of honor.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Anonymous tips forward to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center reported threatening posts from a Discord profile that referenced plans for a future massacre and contained pictures of guns.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There were four Elvises—two in fading black and white, two in lurid colour—all aiming a six-gun straight at her.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Herbert ran to his right on the Kansas City 23-yard line and slung a sidearm pass to Johnston for his second touchdown of the game.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Ziva, though, heard gunshot, immediately grabbed for her sidearm and started frantically aiming for an assailant who wasn’t there.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Revolver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revolver. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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