How to Use machine gun in a Sentence

machine gun

noun

• They heard the sound of machine-gun fire.
• The rifle uses heavy machine gun rounds and has a range of up to four miles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
• He had been issued a machine gun and was headed to the war.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
• The gun in question was the notorious Thompson machine gun, and the time was the 1920s.
  — Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
• The enemies have the machine gun while most of us are still hurling rocks.
  — Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• It is equipped with a 30 mm gun, a machine gun and/or a grenade launcher, and can travel up to 60 miles per hour.
  — Arkansas Online, 19 Jan. 2023
• The logo depicts a big bee in a sailor cap holding a hammer, a wrench, and a machine gun.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• Another soldier in the unit, 57-year-old Zil, ripped a machine gun out of the hands of a Russian corpse.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• The sounds of machine gun fire punctuated the pair’s race to safety.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
• In 2022, Russians came knocking on the door with their machine guns, looking for Nazis.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2023
• After the four gunners before him had been shot in the face, Andrews was ordered to take over the machine gun.
  — Fox News, 11 Nov. 2022
• When placed on the back of a gun, the small, simple devices can change a handgun into a mini-machine gun.
  — CBS News, 8 June 2022
• His plane was once struck by fire from a Soviet-era heavy machine gun in Afghanistan.
  — Jessica Donati, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• The agents gave him a cardboard box containing an M-60 machine gun in three pieces.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
• There’s a scene where Chris is on top of a train shooting machine guns at helicopters.
  — Vulture, 20 June 2023
• Armed with four machine guns, five of the men climbed a hill and took positions overlooking the base and the antenna.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
• The occupant of the house was arrested and charged with possession of a machine gun.
  — Scott Glover and Curt Devine, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
• There are three keys to what’s going on here: Retrofit Escapade as a 900 rpm machine gun.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• One of the soldiers in the tank is shouting into a megaphone; another holds a machine gun.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Ants’ ears hurt with each bullet fired from wrathful machine guns.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2023
• The Supreme Court leans in favor of upholding a ban on bump stocks that enable rifles to work like machine guns.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• This suit can reportedly stop a 50-caliber machine gun round and is pitched as the replacement for the Ratnik-3.
  — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• The agent also recommended how to fire the machine gun so that its barrels wouldn’t overheat and melt.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
• There’s a moment when someone hands off a giant machine gun to the guy on the motorcycle.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2022
• Inside the vehicles, bad men blast machine guns, while our nameless hero is armed with … just his wits and the jingle bell around his neck.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 27 Nov. 2023
• The video has no audio, but a militant is seen yelling, then pointing his machine gun at a man taking cover next to the car.
  — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 9 Oct. 2023
• The Hewland transmission fires through the ratios with the subtlety of a .50 caliber machine gun.
  — Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• The standard-issue infantry weapon worldwide is a machine gun.
  — Mark Bowden, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
• Though more 100 years old, the M2 is still competitive with today’s machine guns.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Dutch are currently testing a ground robot with a .50-caliber machine gun.
  — Bloomberg.com, 3 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024