How to Use machine-gun in a Sentence

machine-gun

1 of 2 adjective
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  • The melody and Coriolanus’ calls to Lucy Gray come alive in the woods, prompting him to machine-gun the trees to stop the noise.
    — EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But the men on the hill were ready and laid down suppressive machine-gun fire of their own.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • His team flew toward a farmhouse that held a machine-gun nest.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The bullets were clipped together in long strands for rapid, machine-gun fire.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Hundreds of thousands have fled to the south, leaving a silence broken only by the pop of machine-gun fire and the heavy thrum of Israeli tanks.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The darkness soon erupted with machine-gun fire, thudding bazookas and something else.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Suddenly, a German fighter plane pounced on the lumbering Liberator and tore it in half with a burst of machine-gun fire.
    — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
  • Getting hooked on Hearn’s machine-gun delivery led to the Lakers becoming his favorite team.
    — Scott Howard-Cooper., Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • All morning, fighting could be heard throughout the area, most of it machine-gun fire and shelling, as Israeli troops advancing deeper into Gaza clashed with Hamas fighters.
    — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • At least two Soviet MiGs — accounts of how many exactly vary — appeared suddenly and strafed the Neptune with machine-gun fire that tore into the plane and set the left engine afire.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Smedley, for whom a stretch of Interstate 4 between Orange and Seminole counties is named, died in a one-man assault on an enemy machine-gun nest in Vietnam.
    — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Depending on drive mode and throttle position, the eight-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission can be machine-gun quick or comfortably relaxed.
    — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023
  • People were trapped in the open, incinerated, asphyxiated and strafed with machine-gun fire.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The film’s fashion reputation preceded it; fans with temporary machine-gun tattoos mobbed the red carpet.
    — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2024
  • In Mexico, drug cartels have recently outfitted monster trucks with battering rams and machine-gun turrets to use in shootouts.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Weber said modern inkjet printers with complicated, glitch-prone software remind him of his father’s complex machine-gun printer.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
  • In this portrait of a remote and insular place, the machine-gun loquaciousness of both Eli and Naomi lays bare a spectacular self-confidence, but one that’s tinged with desperation and thrives on conflict of the high school melodrama sort.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • The planes relentlessy pounded anti-aircraft and machine-gun positions and rocket installations.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2023
  • The melody and Coriolanus’ calls to Lucy Gray come alive in the woods, prompting him to machine-gun the trees to stop the noise.
    — EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But the men on the hill were ready and laid down suppressive machine-gun fire of their own.
    — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
  • His team flew toward a farmhouse that held a machine-gun nest.
    — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The bullets were clipped together in long strands for rapid, machine-gun fire.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Hundreds of thousands have fled to the south, leaving a silence broken only by the pop of machine-gun fire and the heavy thrum of Israeli tanks.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The darkness soon erupted with machine-gun fire, thudding bazookas and something else.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Suddenly, a German fighter plane pounced on the lumbering Liberator and tore it in half with a burst of machine-gun fire.
    — Steve Straessle, Arkansas Online, 3 July 2023
  • Getting hooked on Hearn’s machine-gun delivery led to the Lakers becoming his favorite team.
    — Scott Howard-Cooper., Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • All morning, fighting could be heard throughout the area, most of it machine-gun fire and shelling, as Israeli troops advancing deeper into Gaza clashed with Hamas fighters.
    — Patrick Kingsley Avishag Shaar-Yashuv, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024
  • At least two Soviet MiGs — accounts of how many exactly vary — appeared suddenly and strafed the Neptune with machine-gun fire that tore into the plane and set the left engine afire.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Smedley, for whom a stretch of Interstate 4 between Orange and Seminole counties is named, died in a one-man assault on an enemy machine-gun nest in Vietnam.
    — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Depending on drive mode and throttle position, the eight-speed PDK dual-clutch transmission can be machine-gun quick or comfortably relaxed.
    — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 22 Aug. 2023
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machine gun

2 of 2 noun
  • Note the machine gun attached to one of the bicycles at lower right.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The maximum penalty for possession of a machine gun is 10 years in prison.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 26 May 2022
  • After four men were killed while manning a machine gun, Captain Salomon took control of it.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • Those challenging the Trump rule on bump stocks point out that the ATF hasn't always equated bump stocks with machine guns.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The Merkava, the Namer and the Puma all have 7.62 caliber machine guns, Butterworth said.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Wayne Sanders, 29, is facing charges for second degree murder with a deadly weapon, felony in possession of a firearm and possession of a machine gun.
    — Adam Taylor, Orlando Sentinel, 12 July 2024
  • Spiker earlier this month led the council in urging legislative action to ban bump stocks, devices that turn semi-automatic rifles into something more akin to a machine gun.
    — Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • 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
  • One Friday, Bostic and the informant spoke again and negotiated a deal: The informant would give Bostic a machine gun and extended magazines in exchange for heroin.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2024

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