How to Use gunman in a Sentence

gunman

noun

• They were shot by an unknown gunman.
• Neither the name of the gunman or the victims have been release.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 June 2023
• New warning signs emerge in the background of the Maine gunman.
  — Richie Duchon, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• During the struggle, police said the gunman was shot in the face.
  — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• The other two culprits fled the scene in a silver SUV, and the gunman fled on foot.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• The gunman opened fire from a high-rise suite at the Mandalay Bay casino.
  — Ken Ritter and Rio Yamat The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2023
• Minutes after the gunmen entered, the Stahl and her four guests were all shot in the head.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
• The gunmen tried to beat down the door to the safe room before exiting the ship and making their way back to the shores of Yemen.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2023
• The gunman, John T. Earnest, was charged in state and federal court.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2023
• Survivors said the man pleaded with the gunmen not to enter the building.
  — Isabel Kershner Amit Elkayam, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• He was confronted by a gunman who fired shots and then fled the scene, Wade said.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• The idea being, there had to be a gunman in front of JFK if the bullet entered through his neck.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2023
• The rhetoric that inspired the gunman in El Paso hasn’t lost its prominence.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• The explosion was controlled, the victims and gunmen were actors, and the blood was fake.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024
• The gunman ran off after the shooting and had not been found as of midmorning, O’Brien said.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
• The video captured the gunman fire at least three shots at the officer while running away.
  — Staff Reports, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
• Abigail was in her father’s arms when a Hamas gunman shot him.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• The 24-year-old gunman, who worked at the building where the shooting occurred, is also dead.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
• Pinned down by the gunfire, police could only come to Joshua’s aid after the gunman was killed.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2023
• Cruz, according to court records, is a cousin of the teenage gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde last year.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Apart from a gunfight outside the hospital at the start of the raid, there were no reports of clashes with Hamas gunmen at the site.
  — Iyad Abuheweila, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• The local high school went into lockdown, and the shooting prompted a search for a gunman.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2023
• The gunman got into a vehicle parked next to Castro’s that drove off.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
• In the course of two days in July, their relatives took the stand at the gunman’s sentencing hearing.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2023
• They were snuffed out, his family says, when an Israeli gunman opened fire on their car, shooting the 17-year-old Khdour in the head.
  — Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• The 67-year-old gunman killed three faculty members and wounded a fourth.
  — Susan Young, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2023
• In January, a half-block away on Garvey, a gunman opened fire on a crowd in a ballroom dance studio.
  — Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Bullet casings litter the floor after the gunman fired 450 rounds inside the church in minutes.
  — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• The gunman in the Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people and wounded 17 others .
  — oregonlive, 8 June 2023
• Helicopters landed on the grass fields, and police officers met in the school buildings to plan their search for the gunman.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024