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
  • Trump was nicked in the ear after Crooks fired an AR-style assault rifle.
    Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 23 July 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
  • Wilson said the amendment changed where the owner of an assault rifle could use it, not whether the person could own the gun.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • At least one of the suspects was wielding an assault rifle, Jordan said.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 28 July 2022
  • One shooter was armed with an assault rifle, and the other had two handguns.
    Melissa Alonso, CNN, 23 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Bullet holes etched by an assault rifle dot the entrance.
    New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Ana Rodriguez, the mother of Maite Rodriguez, pleaded for a ban on assault rifles.
    Mike Baker, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • At least one had an assault rifle, according to the lawsuit.
    Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The second driver gets out of his car and tells the first drive to leave, at which point the second drive goes into his trunk and retrieves what appears to be an assault rifle.
    Peter Aitken, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Robinson is noted for defending the AR-15 assault rifle after school shootings.
    Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2024

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