Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shotguns
Noun
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The printing press, clocks, muskets — all these inventions changed humankind forever.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026 -
Audiences are immersed in the horrors of the war, which was fought eyeball to eyeball by landless men wielding muskets, unreliable rifles and terrifying bayonets.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
16 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Changes announced by Senate President Bobby Joe Champion, DFL-Minneapolis, also include a ban on members of the public carrying firearms in the Senate Gallery.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
26 Jan. 2026
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Policing experts said that when officers are trying to arrest people found to have firearms, they are taught to alert their fellow officers and then draw their own guns and order the people to drop theirs or to try to disarm them.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC news,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The indictment describes two pistols, a rifle and a shotgun found in Roberts’ possession.—
Hannah Fingerhut,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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The indictment describes two pistols, a rifle and a shotgun found in Roberts' possession.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Sort of small arms warfare, where they were harassed for months in one of these sad situations where the cops wouldn’t intervene.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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The Russia-Ukraine War began as a fairly standard 21st-century conventional war, marked by huge armored columns trying to take key cities and military installations, air assaults, close air support, and small arms gunbattles.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Dec. 2025
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“Shotguns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shotguns. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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