How to Use assault rifle in a Sentence

assault rifle

noun

• The sheriff said the assault rifle was used in the shooting.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
• One man held an assault rifle above his head, walked forward and placed a gun on the ground.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023
• One of the men strode up, raised an assault rifle and fired a few rounds toward the Israelis.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• One hand is thrown into the air in a Nazi salute, the other clutches an assault rifle.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• The video shows the Palestinian man grabbing the officer's assault rifle, which then drops to the ground.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Dec. 2022
• The state banned bump stocks, which can turn an assault rifle into a machine gun.
  — Brittany Wallman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2022
• The bandits at the scene were armed with four AK-47-style assault rifles and an AR-15 assault rifle and had food to last for days.
  — José Ignacio Castañeda Perez, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2022
• At least one of the suspects was wielding an assault rifle, Jordan said.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 28 July 2022
• But other common video game tropes—assault rifles and the like—aren't close at hand in her San Diego studio.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• Maggie had been shot five times with an AR-style assault rifle, while Paul had been shot twice at close range with a shotgun.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2023
• Last week a man wearing body armor and armed with an assault rifle and a nail gun tried to breach the FBI's Cincinnati office.
  — David Klepper, ajc, 16 Aug. 2022
• Ana Rodriguez, the mother of Maite Rodriguez, pleaded for a ban on assault rifles.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• Hezbollah’s flag bears an assault rifle similar to the AK-47.
  — Audrey Kurth Cronin, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2023
• The video then showed the shooter firing on the glass door, entering the building and going through the hallways while holding an assault rifle.
  — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• The post included a photo of a toddler sitting with an AR-15-style assault rifle on its lap.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 26 May 2022
• Mujahid added that Tajmir was shot three times by the victim's father Wednesday with an assault rifle.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Dec. 2022
• The weapon was a .223-caliber assault rifle and had no serial number, Zanoni said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2023
• Police said they were told a 40- to 50-year-old man came into the store with an assault rifle and demanded money.
  — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2022
• When Sullivan, 31, knocked on Campbell’s door, Campbell sneaked out of the home and retrieved an assault rifle from his car.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• Kordell Jones, Prine said, lept from a back window, was completely nude and armed with an assault rifle.
  — John Sharp | , al, 7 Apr. 2023
• Both victims were shot multiple times, one of them with an assault rifle and a shotgun.
  — Town & Country, 4 Dec. 2022
• An assault rifle used in a 2019 shootout between police and gangsters in Mexico was traced to Jose Rafael Vasquez.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
• Just like Democrats would love to use operation Choke Point to prevent you and me from buying assault rifles.
  — Roger Huang, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Luna said police believe the weapon used in the Monterey Park shooting was not a high-powered assault rifle.
  — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2023
• The yellow-and-green Hezbollah flag, with its image of a fist hoisting an assault rifle, billowed lazily in the nearby hills above us.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• That this person will be carrying an assault rifle and open fire.
  — Will Carless, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2022
• Liberals also scoff at the notion that the authors of the Bill of Rights could have envisioned modern assault rifles.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Answers about why stricter gun control measures aren’t in place in the country, why an 18-year-old could buy an assault rifle, and why police hadn’t rushed into the school faster.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2022
• The statement added that four other people were there, and that the suspect allegedly bludgeoned Daniel’s mom with an assault rifle.
  — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
• Salvador Ramos opened fire with an AR-15-style assault rifle in a fourth-grade classroom before an officer killed him to end the rampage.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 1 June 2022

Last Updated: 5 May 2024