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Recent Examples of rifle
Noun
Watching them with a sniper rifle is Dawn, who was offered a deal to take them out to pin things on Owen and improve her status in the CIA. Barry Levitt, TIME, 30 Jan. 2025 Several opponents also accused the legislature of essentially seeking to ban all semiautomatic rifles. Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
Van Dijk rifling the ball into the upper left corner despite Kepa already standing in the left corner If the game against England does go to a shootout, there is a high probability that Van Dijk will be one of the first players Ronald Koeman selects to take one of the Netherlands’ penalties. Matt Pyzdrowski, The Athletic, 10 July 2024 The Cowboys would need some steep secondary help to stop the pair from rifling off big plays. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rifle 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rifle
Noun
  • Quarterback Patrick Mahomes lined up in the shotgun formation with running back Kareem Hunt behind him and tight ends Travis Kelce and Noah Gray on either side.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Football talk is scarce in the NFL’s new three-minute black-and-white promo released today in anticipation of Sunday’s Super Bowl, but with Kendrick Lamar in the driver’s seat, literally, and Timothée Chalamet riding shotgun, few will notice anything else.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • That authenticity is what Williamson has long been searching for in his work.
    Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
  • When law enforcement searched her home in January, authorities found gold coins, pieces of gold, a pink wallet with a $2,599 U.S. Treasury check made out to someone else, a 1953 Topps #1 Jackie Robinson MLB Brooklyn Dodgers baseball card and U.S. currency, according to the plea agreement.
    Julia Marnin, Sacramento Bee, 10 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Sassenach’s survival is an important development, given that Mrs. Fraser ended the previous episode with a musket ball in her liver and an alarming amount of her blood on the ground.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 6 Jan. 2025
  • In recent decades, however, the military has also been polluting the home front, most notably with a toxic chemical never heard of in the era of muskets and drums: PFAS.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently released video of officials combing through the debris and destruction left after the fatal Jan. 31 plane crash in Philadelphia, which killed at least seven people and injured 22 others.
    Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Rescue teams were combing the Potomac River after a plane carrying 64 people and a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday night.
    Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The Lilac fire spread from the edge of nearby I-15 in a southwesterly direction and raked across the rear of a tan-colored home on the eastern side of Ranchos Ladera Road, burning up to the property’s patio.
    Paul Sisson, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Dash Day had himself quite a time, raking the trap, drawing in the sand and playing with a golf ball while his dad posed for pictures with a trophy and a surfboard — and a check for $1.13 million.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • My first rifle had been a flintlock that had been given to me by an old friend, Ed Wesson, the gunsmith.
    Outdoor Life, Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.
    Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.
    Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton.
    Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024

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