How to Use revolver in a Sentence

revolver

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  • Bullets from the crime scene were the same as the ones in his revolver.
    — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Gun fire is heard and a revolver can be seen next to the suspect.
    — Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The older, 11 or 12, holds a revolver aimed at your left eye.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The three men pointed a revolver at the man and stole his wallet and truck keys.
    — Aidan Wohl, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
  • As Lake stood in the street, Kepler pulled his revolver and shot Lake twice.
    — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Police found the revolver stuffed under the couch cushions in the living room.
    — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
  • One of the sales, for a revolver, occurred on April 27, according to the complaint.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The revolver was in Hinds’s bag, under a laptop, Greenidge told the station.
    — Michael Laris, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Agents found a Ruger revolver and a Sig Sauer pistol hidden in a couch in the living room.
    — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Yvette is strangled with the rope in the billiard room, the motorist is hit with the lead pipe, and a singing telegram girl is shot with the revolver.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The lawsuit says that Baldwin was supposed to reach across his chest to draw the revolver and point it at the camera.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2021
  • They were lost without the gimpy revolver that composed their fear.
    — Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
  • In the scene, Baldwin was supposed to reach across his chest and pull a revolver from his holster.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2021
  • One of them also ran outside and fired his revolver twice to raise an alarm, but Krause was gone.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2022
  • In both clips, the man can be seen carrying a silver revolver in his left hand.
    — Henri Hollis, ajc, 20 July 2022
  • Jurors also heard from the officers who handled the case, from the man who found the gun and from the store clerk who sold Hunter the revolver.
    — Claudia Lauer, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2024
  • For reasons that are still unknown, a live round had made its way into the revolver.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 9 July 2024
  • When the 60-year-old grandmother opened the door, the man and pushed his way inside and drew a silver revolver from inside the box.
    — Fox News, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Frustrated after hours wrestling with a hooked stingray, one of them shoots it with a revolver.
    — Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Several shots were fired by the man with the revolver, but nobody was injured.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
  • The gun, a Smith and Wesson .38-caliber revolver, went off during the struggle, and Dante was struck by a bullet.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 17 July 2023
  • The report also noted that, in order for the revolver to fire, the trigger needed to be pulled.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Unlike a six-shot revolver, the standard Glock had clips holding 17 rounds.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Per People, police recovered the revolver in the Pines River the next week.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Michael asked for a tip, one of the passengers said no, Michael pulled out a .38 revolver, the driver tried to pull away, and in the fracas Michael shot the driver and killed him.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
  • When the officers approached the house, the suspect came out the back door and ran at the officers with a loaded revolver in his hand.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Panicking, Barry arrives at Jim’s home, to find Cousineau out at the curb with a revolver.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 12 June 2022
  • Some might wonder why not get a .44-40 revolver and rifle, to honor the era in which these guns were considered the best.
    — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2021
  • And the song, which laments a woman who used the narrator’s head like a revolver, even has a Beatles album in the title.
    — Andy Meek, Billboard, 17 July 2024
  • The revolver’s serial number had been ground off and was unreadable.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2024

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