tommy-gunned

past tense of tommy-gun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tommy-gunned
Verb
  • Among them was Eilene Oken, 38, who walked through what used to be her neighbourhood, only to find her home completely destroyed.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Just under two million Palestinians—virtually the entire population of Gaza—have been displaced since October 2023, many repeatedly, and Israeli forces have damaged or destroyed more than 90 percent of homes in the Strip.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Firefighters whisper about a gas main as a little girl, Dinah, is carried out of the wreckage—the sole survivor of a blast that killed her mom.
    Judy Berman, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • As various ancient sources recount, after Achilles is killed by Paris, the Greeks resort to deception.
    Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The Buckeyes benefitted from a pair of penalties, including a face-mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
    Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As K-pop hits go, the soundtrack has outpaced the genre’s superstar artists, racking up more streams in its first 11 weeks of release than the highest-performing songs by BTS and Blackpink did in theirs.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Covington police said the incident did in fact occur at Holmes High School, part of Covington Independent Public Schools.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nicholas is dispatched to find the identity of the owner and locate a telephone.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Cincinnati Fire Department, 37 firefighters were dispatched to the bridge to attempt to rescue him.
    Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The at-bats were brief and uneventful, the opposite of the approach that carried Toronto to this stage and felled Snell in Game 1.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • That says a lot about the 2025 Red Sox, who were a top offensive team in many metrics, but were also felled by their bats in crucial spots throughout the year and postseason.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • News and weather reports record that smoke blotted out the Sun on one out of every three days, and sometimes sunlight never pierced the darkness.
    Robert Wyss, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Urban skyglow has robbed many of us of our night skies and the vast majority of the population of the United States now lives in regions where the stars are mostly blotted out by excessive lighting.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If there is any unevenness in wear the bomb will slew to one side and curve away from a straight path.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • The 'Planetarium View' shows users a representation of the night sky, and tapping on an object gives you the option to slew the telescope to it directly.
    Gemma Lavender, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Tommy-gunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tommy-gunned. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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